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A query service for a software engineering database system

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SDE 4: Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments

Pages 238 - 248

https://doi.org/10.1145/99277.99299

Published: 01 October 1990 Publication History

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The PCTE interfaces define a Public Tool Interface intended to serve as a basis for the construction of integrated software engineering environments (SEEs). The interfaces include Object Management System (OMS) services that manage the data repository of the environment. The OMS is based on a binary Entity-Relationship model.

This paper describes a query service constructed on the PCTE interfaces. Following a brief summary of the OMS features that are necessary to understand the paper, we describe the requirements and design objectives for a query service in an integrated SEE, the basic model for our solution, and then review the facilities of the service. The paper also contains a comparison with other work on queries on E-R and object-oriented databases.

The paper's conclusions indicate the differences that exist between requirements and characteristics for query services on SEE data repositories and those for other databases. It shows, for example, how assumptions about data availability and accessibility that are often made for query services are not appropriate for SEE data repositories.

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A query service for a software engineering database system
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database design and models
    2. Query languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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SDE 4: Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments

October 1990

248 pages

ISBN:089791418X

DOI:10.1145/99277

Editor:
Richard N. Taylor

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 15, Issue 6
Dec. 1990
248 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/99278
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