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A case study in use of framework technology as the basis for a software engineering environment

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In order to investigate the capabilities of varous types of integration infrastructure, the CASE Environments project at the Software Engineering Institute has conducted a series of studies integrating a variety of tools using “framework” technologies. This paper discusses one of these studies, in which a Software Engineering Environment was first modeled using a number of process notations and then constructed using control- and data-oriented frameworks. Public domain, commercial, and custom tools were integrated in support of the defined process scenario.

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    Alan W. Brown, David J. Carney, Alan M. Christie, Ed J. Morris, Paul E. Zarrella & W. Michael Caldwell

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Brown, A.W., Carney, D.J., Christie, A.M. et al. A case study in use of framework technology as the basis for a software engineering environment. Journal of Systems Integration 4, 195–218 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01976183

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