{"title":"Status of software tools developed in Japan","authors":"T. Takeshita","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506483","url":null,"abstract":"This paper overviews software tools developed in Japan and briefly describes some selected ones. Japanese computer manufacturers' software tools have evolved from mainframe to workstation/PC and to client/server environments, and from structured methods to object-oriented, from lower CASE to upper, and from forward engineering to re-engineering. A few CASE products by independent software vendors are well received. Componentware, re-engineering, and other technologies have been developed.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124484772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodology of a CASE-tool assessment","authors":"A. Hierholzer, G. Herzwurm","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506485","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the efficiency of international CASE tools, which were offered on the German market in 1994. In considering a catalogue of more than 400 criteria, which has been developed in cooperation with industry, 17 CASE tools are evaluated in the scope of a case study. Both the specific requirements of a CASE user and the common requirements derived from the ISO 9000 are taken into account as well.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":" 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113948210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If yesterday is tomorrow, this must be Toronto [Internet software]","authors":"S. Williamson","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506491","url":null,"abstract":"The author uses examples of Quarterdeck software to show that the pace of innovation in Internet software outstrips the ability of any single company or tool set to keep pace. The author points out the validity of both standards based programming and technical innovation in advance of standards with the intent of achieving market advantage. He emphasizes that one must be prepared to make use of new (not necessarily home grown) tools, make alliances and yet one must also be on the lookout for the next coming set of innovations, and the tools to cope with them.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124371363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JANUS: Software Tools - Looking Back/Looking Forward","authors":"David Belanger","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506481","url":null,"abstract":"With a dozen or so collegues, I’ve spent the last decade creating software tools which could be used in the production of software systems, and “selling” those tools to a large community of users [I]. At this point. there is a reasonable amount of “mass” to the effort. Many papers and patents, a few books, nearly 1 Million Lines of Code, and an estimated annual benefit to our company of over $50 Million. While we were busy creating this “mass’: the software tools industry was maturing very rapidly, both technologically and economically. At various times, we have stepped back to reassess our position and direction. Almost 2 years ago, it became clear that the business and technical environments demanded new strategies for software tool researchers, builders, and users. I’ve spent much of the last year putting together an organization to implement a version of these strategies. This talk describes learnings looking back, and strategies looking forward. They are roughly described in chronological order in terms of important areas qffocus: Tools & Technology Transfer: Portability & Reuse; Configuration and Architecture; Riding the Technical Waves; Process; and Systems/information/“minilabs’~.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120960203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining a set of criteria for the assessment of tool support for CMM-based software process improvement","authors":"E. Ellmer, D. Merkl","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506482","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers as well as practitioners agree that the quality of a software product relies to a high degree on the quality of the software process. Therefore recent research efforts in software engineering focus on software process assessment and improvement (SPAI). Numerous approaches like the CMM, Bootstrap, SPICE, AMI were developed. An important factor influencing success and progress of the implementation of a SPAI approach in an organization is its software engineering tools environment. The aim of the paper is to determine a set of criteria concerning the assessment of the suitability of a tools environment for the promotion of CMM-based SPAI. We base our investigations on the 316 CMM Key Practices. We structure them according to the issues they address. For each issues cluster we determine the functionality to be provided and artifacts to be managed by a tool as assessment criteria. The degree of fulfillment of a certain criteria depends on if and how the associated function or artifact is provided. Our investigations result in the definition of 12 evaluation criteria. Examples are the necessity to provide computerized process representations or to provide meta process support like process monitoring or process evolution. After defining the criteria we determine their importance for reaching the CMM Maturity Levels and for supporting the Key Practices associated to the CMM Common Features.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124693870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Object-oriented modeling in Metaview","authors":"Yong Zhuang, P. Findeisen, P. Sorenson","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506488","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the capability of Metaview, a meta CASE system, to define object oriented CASE environments. An innovative feature of Metaview is the use of aggregation as a mechanism for linking method fragments. This approach is illustrated in the specification of our environment to support OMT, one of the most popular object oriented development methods.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114884291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A characterization of OOA tools","authors":"Roland Kaschek, Heinrich C. Mayr","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506478","url":null,"abstract":"Despite unification of tools supporting object oriented analysis (OOA) there is still a variety of tools making it hard to select one of them for a given environment. Clearly, if one is willing to apply a certain favorite OOA method, the choice would be restricted to tools supporting that method. However, there are usually several such tools and no clear criteria for selecting between them without extensive experimentation. But this, in general, is impossible due to time restrictions. The paper deals with the selection problem and poses a set of OOA tool characteristics that can be used for tool description and thus form a base for an efficient tool comparison. In order to show how this set of characteristics may be applied, we give, as an example, a characterization of OMTool.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133943241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing software tools in the telecommunications industry","authors":"M. Tarkiainen","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506480","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes practical aspects of assessing software tools to be used in developing large-scale telecommunications systems.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121976774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CAME tools-lessons learned","authors":"R. Dumke","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506490","url":null,"abstract":"The tools that realize and support the software measurement process will be denoted as computer assisted software measurement and evaluation tools (CAME tools). The paper presents a classification and characterization of the CAME tools on the basis of an analysis of more then twenty tools in the Software Measurement Laboratory at the University of Magdeburg.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120984569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of tools in the telecommunications industry: a customer perspective","authors":"J. Mayrand","doi":"10.1109/AST.1996.506479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AST.1996.506479","url":null,"abstract":"The Information Technology Procurement and Supplier Quality department of Bell Canada is responsible for the procurement of complex software products. To assess and manage the risks related to these acquisitions, we have developed methods and tools that combine process capability assessment and software product assessment. This provides us with a generic view of the deployment of software tools among our suppliers. The paper presents two points related to software tools in telecommunications companies. The first one is the characteristics of the telecommunications industry that influence the introduction of software tools. The second point is the introduction process of software tools viewed as a new technology for a software development organization.","PeriodicalId":427825,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124926264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}