Publisher's Synopsis
The concept of system development environments and factories (SDE & F) has evolved over the past decade from earlier work in the area of environments for programming-in-the-small, in-the-large, and in-the-many. SDE & F supports the entire software production process, including all technical and managerial tasks, with a high degree of automation and resource utilization. In order to facilitate this, research results from a number of fields need to be integrated into a coherent whole. Included in these fields are: the software process, object bases, integration frameworks for tools and people, human computer interaction, co-operative group work, embedded systems, distributed and heterogeneous systems, and a number of others. Recognizing this challenge to develop SDE & F, a number of initiatives have begun on an international scale, some examples of which are: ESF, EAST and ATMOSPHERE in Europe, Leonardo and Arcadia in the USA, and SDA, a Japan-American collaboration.;This proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the First International Conference on SDE & F, held in Berlin in May 1989. This conference, which is the first in a series of such conferences, has been established by joint effort from some of the key international SDE & F projects.;The Berlin conference was well attended by researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, both in technical presentations and the numerous system demonstrations. It served successfully as a forum for the exchange of ideas, of information on international programmes and projects, and of available prototypes and products.;In these proceedings there are 21 papers, grouped under six chapters, that address some of the key issues involved in SDE & F: architectural issues, software process modelling, project management support, formal basis, tool construction and tool integration. The authors hope these papers will be of as much interest to the reader as they were to the participants of the conference.
