Author :
Burge, Janet E. ; Brown, David C.
Author_Institution :
Miami Univ., Oxford, OH
Abstract :
A completed software product is the end result of many decisions that must be made throughout the development lifecycle. Unfortunately, the rationale for these decisions is usually not captured and is therefore lost. The Software Using RATionale (SEURAT) system integrates with the Eclipse Interactive Development Environment to support rationale capture and use. In addition to presenting the rationale to the developer/maintainer as needed, SEURAT also supports requirements traceability and impact assessment.
Keywords :
decision making; programming environments; software development management; software maintenance; decision making; eclipse interactive development environment; integrated rationale management; requirement traceability; software development lifecycle; software maintainer; software product; software-using rationale; Decision making; Design engineering; Displays; Documentation; Environmental management; Programming; Prototypes; Software development management; Software engineering; Software prototyping; argumentation; inference; rationale; traceability;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 2008. ICSE '08. ACM/IEEE 30th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Leipzig
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4486-1
Electronic_ISBN :
0270-5257
DOI :
10.1145/1368088.1368215
