Adele 2: a Support to Large Software Development Process

After years of use of Adele1 (a Data Base for Version and Con guration management [11]), we noticed that we lack concepts and mechanisms related with activities: work environment control, users coordination and synchronization, method and tool control, etc. We notice also that, currently, a very large amount of work is needed to adapt a SEE to user requirements. From this experience, we implemented Adele 2 to provide a general support for de ning and managing the dynamic aspects of a SEE, and easing the building of new SEE. This paper describes, from an example (workspace control), the concepts and mechanisms involved. It is shown how a deep integration of an activity manager with the Adele DB data model ful lls the basic requirements, and how a high level task manager coupled to a con guration manager can be developed.