Title :
IDEA - an incremental development environment for Ada
Author :
Nicol, C. ; Crowe, M.K. ; Corr, M.E. ; Oram, J.W. ; Jenkins, D.G.
Author_Institution :
Paisley College of Technology, Department of Computing Science, Software Tools Research Group, Paisley, UK
fDate :
11/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper decribes an incremental environment which has been developed to meet the needs of developers and maintainers of large Ada projects. This environment assists the user to develop valid Ada text while consulting other Ada packages and documents. It is built around an embedded syntax-directed editor which controls text inspection, modification and, subsequently, re-compilation. In addition, the data accumulated by a translator is available during editing to provide semantic assistance on request.
Keywords :
Ada; programming environments; text editing; Ada; IDEA; embedded syntax-directed editor; incremental development environment; large Ada projects; modification; re-compilation; semantic assistance; text inspection; translator; valid Ada text;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering Journal
DOI :
10.1049/sej:19870025
