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Software design automation in an IPSE

Automation de la Conception du Logiciel dans un Environnement Intégré

  • III — The Internals Of Environments: The Bones
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ESEC '87 (ESEC 1987)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 289))

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Abstract

This paper describes an editing system which is explicity designed to support the production of graphical representations of a software design. The novel features of the system are that it is table-driven, so that it may be tailored to support most graphical design notations, and that it explicity includes a means of defining the rules of the design method. These rules may be enforced automatically or checked at user request by the design editing system.

Furthermore, the system is intended to operate within the context of an integrated project support environment called ECLIPSE and the designs generated by the system are stored as objects in the ECLIPSE database. These objects have a defined structure and may be manipulated by other tools (such as a code generator). The editing system is implemented in C and runs on a Sun workstation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XH, Glasgow, Scotland

    Stephen Beer & Ray Welland

  2. Department of Computing, University of Lancaster, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, England

    Ian Sommerville

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  1. Stephen Beer
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  2. Ray Welland
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Howard Nichols Dan Simpson

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Beer, S., Welland, R., Sommerville, I. (1987). Software design automation in an IPSE. In: Nichols, H., Simpson, D. (eds) ESEC '87. ESEC 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022102

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