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Comprehensive software engineering environments consist of a large number of cooperating tools in order to support the various phases of some software life cycle. The cooperation depends largely on the availability of basic mechanisms that manage the large quantities of information involved in a consistent fashion. While database concepts are desirable for this purpose, current systems prove to be unsuitable.
This paper discusses some of the reasons, and lists the requirements that more appropriate solutions have to meet. One major requirement concerns a data model that should specifically be tailored to the software engineering world. The paper presents a new approach to data modelling currently under development. Some other system features as well as implementation aspects are also sketched. We conclude with some perspectives on how the construction of future software tools might be facilitated in the future by virtue of a common underlying database system.
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Dittrich, K.R., Gotthard, W., Lockemann, P.C. (1987). Damokles — A database system for software engineering environments. In: Conradi, R., Didriksen, T.M., Wanvik, D.H. (eds) Advanced Programming Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17189-4_107
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