Inconsistency management for multiple-view software development environments

Author

Grundy, John ; Hosking, John ; Mugridge, Warwick B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waikato Univ., Hamilton, New Zealand

Volume

24

Issue

11

fYear

1998

fDate

11/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

960

Lastpage

981

Abstract

Developers need tool support to help manage the wide range of inconsistencies that occur during software development. Such tools need to provide developers with ways to define, detect, record, present, interact with, monitor and resolve complex inconsistencies between different views of software artifacts, different developers and different phases of software development. This paper describes our experience with building complex multiple-view software development tools that support diverse inconsistency management facilities. We describe software architectures that we have developed and user interface techniques that are used in our multiple-view development tools, and we discuss the effectiveness of our approaches compared to other architectural and HCI techniques

Keywords

configuration management; groupware; programming environments; software architecture; software tools; HCI techniques; collaborative software development; inconsistency management facilities; integrated software development environments; multiple-view software development environments; software architectures; software artifacts; software developers; software development phases; software development tools; software tool support; user interface techniques; Collaborative software; Computer Society; Computerized monitoring; Documentation; Environmental management; Phase detection; Programming; Software development management; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.730545

Filename

730545