Experiences with a federated environment testbed

Abstract

In order to address the question, “What tool integrations are possible for third party tool users given the current state of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) tools and integration technology?”, a set of tool integration experiments were undertaken. These experiments used existing COTS tool and integration technology to create a loosely integrated toolset supporting a simple process scenario. The experiments demonstrated that tool integration is possible by third party tool users with moderate effort. A set of lessons learned from the experiments is provided, along with potential future directions for this work.

This work is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. The views and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government