Customizing lotus notes to build software engineering tools

Many software engineering research tools are stand-alone applications that have trouble interoperating with other development tools and do not fit well into the software developers’ established work processes. Our main hypothesis is that in order for new tools to be adopted effectively, they must be compatible with both existing users and existing tools. Typically, software engineering teams in an organization share a set of common applications for their development activities that are a permanent part of each developer’s everyday workflow. Among these applications are shrink-wrapped office tools such as Lotus Notes, which are used for, among other tasks, email, scheduling, and project reports and presentations. These office tools, are highly integrated and offer a mature, well-tested working environment, which can be customized to an extent that allows to provide support for advanced software engineering tasks. This paper describes RENotes, a reverse engineering tool built by ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CASCON
• Authors: Jun Ma, Holger M. Kienle, Piotr Kaminski, Anke Weber, Marin Litoiu
• Keywords: CASCON 2003, CASCON 2007, Office Tools, Software Engineering, Tool