Simplifying Data Integration: The Design of the Desert Software Development Environment (1996)
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| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering |
| Citations: | 23 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Reiss96simplifyingdata,
author = {Steven P. Reiss},
title = {Simplifying Data Integration: The Design of the Desert Software Development Environment},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering},
year = {1996},
pages = {398--407}
}
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This paper describes the design and motivations behind the Desert environment. The Desert environment has been created to demonstrate that the facilities typically associated with expensive data integration can be provided inexpensively in an open framework. It uses three integration mechanisms: control integration, simple data integration based on fragments, and a common editor. It offers a variety of capabilities including hyperlinks and the ability to create virtual files containing only the portions of the software that are relevant to the task on hand. It does this in an open environment that is compatible with existing tools and programs. The environment currently consists of a set of support facilities including a context database, a fragment database, scanners, and a ToolTalk interface, as well as a preliminary set of programming tools including a context manager and extensions to FrameMaker to support program editing and insets for non-textual software artifacts. 1.0 Motivation A software development environment is an integrated set of tools designed to support all phases of software engineering. Our research, first with the FIELD system and currently with Desert, attempts to explore different integrating frameworks for these tools. In the Desert environment we are attempting to augment control integration based on broadcast messaging with a simplified form of data integration and a common framework for editing. The result of these additions is an environment that can support new approaches to software development while remaining compatible with existing tools and working on existing programs. Message-based control integration has been widely successful in programming environments, forming the backbone of such commercial environments as Sun’s
