An incremental integration tool between requirements engineering and programming in the large

In the IPSEN research project at Aachen University in Germany, integration tools that integrate documents of different working areas have been developed. They execute a transformation algorithm and check the consistency incrementally by installing and maintaining links between those documents. A framework is introduced that allows the efficient realization of new integration tools. The functionality and architecture of such an integrator are described. It integrates a requirements engineering document and a programming in the large document that describe a software design in the IPSEN module interconnection language