TGE approach for constructing software engineering tools

Author

Gray, Jonathan ; Ryan, Benjamin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., South Australia Univ., The Levels, SA, Australia

fYear

1998

fDate

9-13 Nov 1998

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

150

Abstract

We describe an environment for building software engineering tools. The proposed Tool Generation Environment (TGE) is intended for use by skilled and experienced software engineers to construct effective CASE tools quickly and at low cost. The TGE is designed to be platform independent, multi-method, highly interoperable, and amenable to rigorous analysis. The TGE incorporates meta-CASE concepts with formal specification techniques, and uses the CDIF standard for inter-tool data interchange. We describe the architecture of the TGE and explain, with examples, how CASE tool meta-model information is represented and manipulated. Prototype implementations of TGE components are described and directions for future research in this area are suggested

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; electronic data interchange; formal specification; software tools; CASE tools; CDIF standard; TGE approach; Tool Generation Environment; formal specification; inter-tool data interchange; low cost; multi-method; platform independent; software engineering tools; software engineers; Australia; Buildings; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Identity-based encryption; Information science; Java; Programming; Prototypes; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australian

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9187-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.1998.730921

Filename

730921