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Supporting Software Development Processes in Adele 2

1 LGI, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France, 2 University of Maryland, UMIACS, College Park, MD 20742, USA
After years using of Adele, a configuration management system, it became apparent that it lacks activity-related concepts and mechanisms like work environment control, user coordination and synchronization, method and tool control, etc. It was also clear that considerable work is required to adapt a Software Engineering Environment (SEE) to user requirements. Using this experience, Adele 2 has beeen implemented to provide a general support for defining and managing dynamic aspects of a SEE and facilitate the building of new SEEs. This paper describes, using an example (work space control), the concepts and mechanisms involved. We show how close integration of an activity manager with a software engineering database fulfills the basic requirements and how a high level task manager coupled to a configuration manager can be developed.
Received October, 1992. revised June 1994.
* LGI, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble, France
University of Maryland, UMIACS, College Park, MD 20742, USA