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TICKLE: Object-oriented description and composition services for software engineering environments

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Providing support for object-oriented descriptions of software engineering environment facilities has received considerable interest in recent times. The TICKLE (Tool Inter-communication and Composition Kernel for Large Environments) system provides services for the definition of SEE objects with their associated operations, and the description of the tools and the functions they offer as implementations of operations. Novel features in TICKLE include the separate definition and manipulation of the associations between operations and tool functions in a composite, scoping of the mapping associations to within the composite, and the integration of these object-oriented notions with recent ideas on the use of broadcast mechanisms for tool communication.

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  1. Hewlett-Packard Company, 3404 East Harmony Road, 80525, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA

    Tim Collins, Kevin Ewert, Colin Gerety, Jon Gustafson & Ian Thomas

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Collins, T., Ewert, K., Gerety, C., Gustafson, J., Thomas, I. (1991). TICKLE: Object-oriented description and composition services for software engineering environments. In: van Lamsweerde, A., Fugetta, A. (eds) ESEC '91. ESEC 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540547428_61

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