Organizing software repositories modeling requirements and implementation experiences

Abstract

The authors discuss the representational requirements for capturing and processing the conceptual knowledge about software descriptions. Software repositories should not only provide the service of managing evolving objects and software-related descriptions in integrated environments. This requires addressing the representational adequacy and semantics of present object management systems. Based on experiences gained in a series of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) integration projects, they point out abstractional, assertional, and dynamic clustering requirements of data modeling language for repository managers. A simple example illustrates how the deductive object management system ConceptBase, embodying Telos as its data model, meets these requirements.<>