Building an integrated software maintenance environment From a maintainer's perspective

Describes a process-oriented approach in which software maintainers team up with environment builders to develop a software engineering environment enhancing the support of existing, mature systems. This approach is currently being used to build an integrated work environment based on commercially available tools supporting the entire maintenance lifecycle. A working group, defined by three distinct teams (environment engineering, hardware engineering and tool support), is used to develop the environment. This paper points out important components that are useful to a maintainer and shows an approach to address many of the issues involved in building such an environment.<>