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A contextual approach for process-integrated tools

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Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE'97 (ESEC 1997, SIGSOFT FSE 1997)

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Abstract

Research in process-centered environments (PCEs) has focused on project management support and has been dominated by the search for suitable process modelling languages and enactment mechanisms. The consequences of the process orientation on the tools used during process performance, and for offering fine-grained, method-based support to the engineers performing the process have been studied much less.

In this paper, we discuss the requirements for a tighter integration of interactive engineering tools and present a contextual approach for the process-integration of those tools. To achieve process integration we argue that tools, like processes, should be explicitly defined. The integration of the tool models with the process definitions forms an environment model which is interpreted during tool execution. Based on this interpretation tool behavior is adjusted according to the process definition; i.e. the interpretation empowers the tools to provide fine-grained method-conform process support.

Our approach has been implemented as a reusable object-oriented framework and validated by specializing this framework to develop two prototypical process-integrated environments (PIES).

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Pohl, K., Weidenhaupt, K. (1997). A contextual approach for process-integrated tools. In: Jazayeri, M., Schauer, H. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE'97. ESEC SIGSOFT FSE 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63531-9_14

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