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Development of process-centered IPSEs in the ALF project

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Journal of Systems Integration

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In this article we describe the main results of the ESPRIT project ALF (in French: Accueil de Logiciel Futur or Advanced Software Engineering Environments' Logistics Framework). In ALF we have developed a framework for Integrated Programming Support Environments (IPSEs), a software process modeling language (based on the notion of Models of Assisted Software Processes (MASP)), and an environment used to develop software process models. A MASP describes a software development method. This method specifies how an IPSE should behave. It can be plugged into the framework for IPSEs. Moreover, a MASP is used to integrate tools into the IPSE framework. In this article we focus on assistance and guidance facilities for software developers implemented in the framework for IPSEs.

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  1. CRIN, Campus Scientifique, University of Nancy, BP no 239, F-54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Jean-Claude Derniame

  2. Universitaetsstrasse 140, D-44799, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany

    Volker Gruhn

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Derniame, JC., Gruhn, V. Development of process-centered IPSEs in the ALF project. Journal of Systems Integration 4, 127–150 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01975433

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