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The Computer Journal 1989 32(5):386-398; doi:10.1093/comjnl/32.5.386
© 1989 by British Computer Society
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An Approach to the Support of Software Evolution

I. Sommerville * and R. Thomson *

Department of Computing, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

This paper describes a system which provides the user with a powerful tool to aid system understanding and supports automatic building of software systems from the language description. It is based on a language for describing software system structure in terms of its components. The system is part of the Eclipse integrated project support environment and comprises the following; a language for describing system structure, a viewing system providing a facility of examine language scripts in a structured way, a version handling system and a system building facility. The principal novel characteristic of the SySL system is that target are build from a logical rather than a physical structure description.

Received November 1987. revised August 1988.

* Department of Computing, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR


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