Abstract
In an attempt to increase efficiency and improve quality of large-scale software production. Integrated Project Support Environments (IPSEs) are being built which integrate a set of tools, methods, and techniques to support the complete software development life cycle. Many IPSE’s provide integration with the environment by maintaining all project data in a central database.
This paper proposes extending the traditional database notion of views to provide a mechanism with an IPSE database that allows abstract interfaces to the project data to be defined. All IPSE users and tools access the project data through an abstract interface suited to their particular needs. The design of an IPSE view mechanism is discussed in some detail, followed by a description of an implementation of a view mechanism with the Alvey-funded ASPECT project.
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Brown, A.W. (1988). A View Mechanism for an Integrated Project Support Environment. In: Benyon, D., Skidmore, S. (eds) Automating Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1033-4_24
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