Abstract

A recent trend in improved support for software engineering activities is the increasing use of integrated software engineering environments (ISEEs), in which various specific software engineering tools cooperate to facilitate the software development process. A number of integration frameworks which purport to support cooperation between tools have been proposed and marketed. The challenge facing organisations considering the purchase of a commercial integration framework is the assessment of the capabilities of an environment; once these are understood, comparisons between environments can be made and the extent to which a framework supports and the ease with which it can be tailored to suit organisational and project needs can be judged. Current standards and classifications support only the description of frameworks at a non-functional level. This paper outlines an approach to modelling tool interaction within ISEEs. Keywords: integration frameworks, tool integration, integrated so...

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