Tool integration in CASE environments: the Software Bus

Author

Verrall, M.S. ; Morgan, L.

Author_Institution

Sema Group, Reading, UK

fYear

1992

fDate

6-10 Jul 1992

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

49

Abstract

The development of a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environment which supports the industrialized production of software, known as the factory support environment (FSE), within the European EUREKA Software Factory (ESF) project, is described. An FSE is a distributed communications-oriented CASE environment. The communication integration mechanism of the FSE is the Software Bus, an abstract communication channel which facilitates the exchange of data and control between CASE tools and their component parts. Components and the services they offer and require have descriptions, both in the abstract and of their programming language representations. The Software Bus uses these descriptions to plug components into itself; locate, bind, and match them; and transmit and transform data and control between them

Keywords

integrated software; software engineering; software tools; CASE environments; European EUREKA Software Factory; Software Bus; abstract communication channel; computer-aided software engineering; distributed communications-oriented; factory support environment; industrialized production; tool integration; Application software; Communication system control; Computer aided software engineering; Computer industry; Computer languages; Ergonomics; Mars; Plugs; Production facilities; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 1992. Proceedings., Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2960-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASE.1992.200129

Filename

200129