GIPSY: Generating Integrated Process Support Systems: Project overview

Abstract

Cooperative software engineering requires integration of a distributed and heterogeneous world of actors and resources. Component technology will augment integration problems due to distributed development of large numbers of interoperating components. Extensible Attribute Grammars (EAG) are used for the specification and generation of highly integrated tool components that support the software process. Tool components are plugged into a process support framework which allows for the distributed definition and enactment of a software process. A common understanding of the process is provided by a 3D process model which supports tool integration on a high level so that developers perceive the tools as a homogeneous environment.