Serving up a Banquet: towards an environment supporting all aspects of software development

Abstract

In order to make diverse software engineering techniques readily available and their use effective, they should be supported by appropriate CASE environments. We describe our experiences in building several such environments for different software engineering methodologies and notations. As these methodologies address different aspects of software development, tools embodying them should ideally be integrated within one overall environment. The design of such an environment is described, and our progress towards achieving this integrated environment for all aspects of software development is presented.