The Goodstep Project

The goal of the GOODSTEP project was to enhance and improve the functionality of an object database management system (ODBMS) to yield a platform suited to the construction of process-centred software engineering environments (PSEEs). The baseline of the project was the O2 ODBMS. The project enhanced O2 in order to make it a real software engineering database. These enhancements were exploited and validated by the construction of the GOODSTEP framework for PSEE construction, which includes the SPADE software process toolset and GraphProject and GENESIS, generators for graphical and textual tools. The framework was validated through a trial constructing a customised PSEE for British Airways. Most of the database enhancements developed by GOODSTEP have already been included in the O2 product. The GOODSTEP approach to PSEE construction will be exploited for the improvement of DOORS, a commercial requirements engineering environment.