Industrial Strength Software Development Environments

‘‘Industrial strength’’ software development environments (SDEs) must provide facilities to address three essential properties of multi-developer software systems: evolution, complexity and scale. It is my contention that in order to be an industrial strength SDE, an environment must support at least a city model environment. Moreover, SDEs must include such high level policies as supporting cooperation and communication, supporting a unified process and product, providing multiple means of expression, supporting inter- and intraconnections, managing the change process and managing the multiplicity of versions. Underlying the implementation of these policies are three themes: developer-machine symbiosis in which the machine becomes an active partner in system development and evolution; formalization of the development/evolution process so that we can reason about the process and automate its support; and finally, formalization of the software product so that we can reason ab...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: IFIP
• Authors: Dewayne E. Perry
• Keywords: City Model Environment, IFIP 1989, Multi-developer Software Systems, Programming Languages, Software Development Environments