Evolution is essential for software tool development

Author

Wein, M. ; MacKay, S.A. ; Stewart, D.A. ; Gauthier, C.-A. ; Gentleman, W.M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Jul 1995

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

281

Abstract

We examine the problems encountered in evolving software development tools, in particular, configuration management tools, drawing on our experience in producing the DaSC configuration management toolset. Building good software development tools is a time-consuming, iterative process where the tool designers must take into account the evolving nature of the software development process embodied in the tools, the evolving nature of the environment in which the tools exist, and the evolving understanding that the tool designers have of the users of the tools. We believe that our experience with the tools that we have developed is applicable to other kinds of tools used in industrial settings

Keywords

configuration management; programming environments; software tools; systems analysis; DaSC; configuration management tools; industrial settings; iterative process; software tool development; time-consuming; tool design; Buildings; Concurrent computing; Councils; Information technology; Operating systems; Programming; Software debugging; Software development management; Software tools; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1995., Proceedings of 2nd Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-711-43

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1995.514715

Filename

514715