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Our main objective is to develop an integrated methodology and associated support tools for the development and management of distributed software systems. Our use of the term “distributed software development” is deliberately ambiguous as it is intended to cover both the development of distributed software and distributed development of software by teams of personnel. This paper overviews our work on methods such as the Constructive Design Approach and integration frameworks such as ViewPoints, but, in the interests of brevity, makes no attempt to compare it with current related work.
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Kramer, J., Finkelstein, A., Nuseibeh, B. (1996). Method integration and support for distributed software development: An overview. In: Lamb, D.A. (eds) Studies of Software Design. WSSD 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030524
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