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A major issue in the development of software engineering environments is the structuring of software information — both product and process information produced during the entire software life cycle. In existing environments, the database support for structuring such information is limited to the implementation phase; thus, tools in these environments are limited to supporting, at best, only 10 – 20% of the software development efforts.
This paper describes the research and prototyping activities of a software engineering environment project at the Computer Science Laboratory of GTE Laboratories Incorporated. The crux of our work is in the development of a software information base with a high degree of semantic expressiveness as the core of the environment. The project is developing a prototype software environment on state-of-the-art workstations.
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Kuo, J.H.C., Leslie, K.J., Maggio, M.D., Moore, B.G., Tu, HC. (1987). Information structuring for software 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_92
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