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

10-14 Jul 1995

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

205

Abstract

Examines 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

concurrency control; configuration management; software tools; DaSC configuration management toolset; evolving environment; evolving software development tools; evolving understanding; industrial settings; iterative process; optimistic concurrency control; software development process evolution; software tool development; Buildings; Concurrent computing; Councils; Information technology; Operating systems; Programming; Software debugging; Software development management; Software tools; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 1995. Proceedings., Seventh International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7078-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASE.1995.465314

Filename

465314