The Catalyst software engineering environment

The Catalyst software engineering environment provides a workstation-based approach which gives language-independent support for software requirements analysis and software preliminary design activities; it then narrows its scope to the support of Ada and C specific implementation work for the rest of the life cycle. Catalyst provides a set of loosely integrated tools which assist project members in their work as opposed to just using point solutions. Users of Catalyst have received benefits in the areas of automated requirements engineering, requirements management, software development process, and project management as a result of using version one of Catalyst. The authors focus on some of the challenges in Catalyst´s development, its capabilities, and benefits of its use