A Case Study of Developing an IDE for Embedded Software Using Open Source

Author

Ertl, Dominik ; Krapfenbauer, Harald

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2009

fDate

20-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

196

Abstract

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) support software developers in their implementation work. However, embedded software has specific requirements, so an off-the-shelf IDE for this purpose does not exist. In such a case, this paper recommends developing a customized IDE based on open source software. We present a case study of developing such an IDE for the languages C#, Python and JavaScript. We used several open source projects with varying project status as a basis for our development. We analyzed developer communication within these open source projects and identified the benefits and the potential pitfalls for the case study. Moreover, we present the effort made in terms of person months and that reuse of open source software improves cost-efficiency for the development of such IDEs.

Keywords

embedded systems; programming environments; public domain software; C# language; Integrated Development Environment; JavaScript; Python language; case study; embedded software; open source software; software reuse; Computer architecture; Embedded software; Embedded system; Java; Open source software; Programming; Project management; Software engineering; Software tools; Virtual machining; Embedded Software; Integrated Development Environment (IDE); Open Source;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Advances, 2009. ICSEA '09. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4779-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3777-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEA.2009.38

Filename

5298435