MENTOR : An Environment Supporting the Construction of Methods

Author

Plihon, V.

fYear

1996

Firstpage

384

Abstract

The method engineering discipline acknowledges the need for the construction of methods tuned to specific situations of development projects. One proposal for solving such a problem is to consider a method as a set of method fragments where a fragment can represent either process or product knowledge. Methods can be stored in a method base. We have implemented such a method base which constitutes the kernel of a tool environment called MENTOR, supporting the construction, the evolution of methods and their enactment. In this paper we present and exemplify the Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) functionalities of MENTOR supporting the method construction process. The goal of this CAME environment is to improve the productivity of method engineers by facilitating the construction of methods which are project specific.

Keywords

access control; cryptography; database management systems; financial data processing; protocols; safety-critical software; security of data; computer security applications; cryptographic protocols; database security; electronic payment; firewalls; secure links; security architecture; security engineering; software assurance; Kernel; Productivity; Proposals; Visualization; CAME environment; Method engineering; metamodelisation; method construction; process engineering; situational methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7638-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1996.566773

Filename

566773