Supporting Software Development Processes in Adele 2

After years using of Adele [3], a con guration management system, it became apparent that it lacks activity-related concepts and mechanisms like work environment control, user coordination and synchronization, method and tool control, etc. It was also clear that considerable work is required to adpat a Software Engineering Environment (SEE) to user requirements. Using this experience, Adele 2 has been implemented to provide a general support for de ning and managing dynamic aspects of a SEE and facilitate the building of new SEE's. This paper describes, using an example (work space control), the concepts and mechanisms involved. We show how close integration of an activity manager with a software engineering database ful lls the basic requirements and how a high level task manager coupled to a con guration manager can be developed.