DocumentCode :
3124352
Title :
Constraint-centered descriptions for automated tool invocation
Author :
Tominaga, Kazuto ; Tokuda, Takehiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tokyo Eng. Univ., Japan
fYear :
1994
fDate :
7-9 Dec 1994
Firstpage :
92
Lastpage :
101
Abstract :
One dominant approach to automate tool invocation in software development environments (SDEs) is to describe software development processes (SDPs) in terms of when and how to invoke tools. However, this causes difficulties in writing and understanding such descriptions. In contrast to this traditional approach (we refer to such descriptions as activity-centered descriptions), it is possible to describe constraints among software objects as specifications of SDPs that express what constraints to maintain. We refer to these descriptions as constraint-centered descriptions. This paper shows that constraint-centered descriptions are easier for designers to write and help users to understand specifications of SDPs, and that imperative constraint grammars are suitable to express constraint-centered specifications of SDPs
Keywords :
formal specification; grammars; programming environments; software tools; activity-centered descriptions; automated tool invocation; constraint-centered descriptions; constraint-centered specifications; imperative constraint grammars; software development environments; software development processes; software objects; specification understanding; specifications; Computer science; Production; Software tools; Writing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 First Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6960-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.1994.465270
Filename :
465270
Link To Document :
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