Evaluation of the Rational Environment

Feller, Peter H; Dart, Susan A.; Downey, Grace

doi:10.21236/ada198934

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The SEI has evaluated and assessed CM capabilities of environments, such as Rational [27], ISTAR [19], and NSE [22]; tools, such as IDE's Software Through Pictures and Procase's SmartSystem; and CM systems, such as ADC [1] and CCC [8]. We have also experimented with various CM tools, which resulted in the definition of a spectrum of concepts that captures the functionality found in CM systems [12] and a categorization of CM systems for developers [15].…”

Section: Understanding CM Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At present, CM technology exists as third-party tools [12,7] or as capabilities within an environment [27,19,22]. The tools are sold either as a base tool that enables the user to manipulate its primitives to form a customized CM system, or they come as a turnkey CM system with preset controls, user roles, and policies.…”

Section: Understanding CM Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subsystem: provide a means to limit the effect of changes and recompilation, and for the environment to check the validity of configurations, as in Rational [27].…”

Section: Understanding CM Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Past, Present, and Future of Configuration Management

Dart¹

1992

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Automated support for configuration management (CM) is one aspect of software engineering environments that has progressed over the last 20 years. The progress is seen by the burgeoning interest in CM, many technical papers and conferences involving CM, a large number of CM tool vendors, and new software development environments that incorporate CM capabilities. This paper is about future issues affecting solutions to CM problems. To put the future into perspective, it is necessary to discuss the past and present situation for CM. The past evolves around CM systems built in-house and supplemented with manual procedures and policies for executing the CM functions. The present consists of a better understanding of CM, the beginnings of a common vocabulary for CM, existence of many third-party CM tools and environments supporting CM, and recognition that a single CM system does not solve all CM problems and that there is a need for better understanding of CM process support. The future involves technical, process-oriented, political standardization and managerial challenges. These include the need to provide for new CM requirements, understand the effects of advances in environments, deal with governmental requirements on contractors for using certain CM capabilities, and acquire more management commitment for resources in solving the CM problems of an organization. One way to start addressing these challenges is through the definition of a CM services model that provides a conceptual framework for all CM capabilities. As CM is examined more closely in relation to software engineering, it becomes evident that advances in software technology are needed to aid advances in CM technology.

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Section: Understanding CM Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Understanding CM Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Past, Present, and Future of Configuration Management

Dart¹

1992

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“…The IPSE can be seen as an attempt to synthesize key aspects of language-centered, methods-based and toolkit environments into an organic whole. The key aspect of language-centered environments [13][14] incorporated by IPSE was the central repository, as this was seen as a means to construct a tightly integrated, semantically rich developer's toolkit. This, in concert with a desire for language and project genericity, i.e., a desire to "scale-up" the environments to include lifecycle and project-specific semantics, led to the hypothesis that a central, generalized environment database would be a key IPSE feature.…”

Section: First Generation Ipsementioning

confidence: 99%

Tool Integration and Environment Architectures

Wallnau¹,

Feiler²

1991

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“…A successful configuration management system will allow for this partitioning and also serve to support the composition of the system at times of integration test and product shipment. The Rational Environment is one such commercially available environment which provides the ability to construct a system from different versions of subsystems [2]. A system is partitioned into subsystems in such a manner as to minimize compilation dependencies between the subsystems.…”

Section: Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%