The paper proposes a faceted framework to understand and classify issues in system
development process engineering. The framework identifies four different but …

The importance of a clear conceptual and terminological framework for software process
engineering and the shortcomings of previous clarification attempts are discussed. A first …

This article highlights tool integration within software engineering environments. Tool
integration concerns the techniques used to form coalitions of tools that provide an …

An environment is described, called Professor Marvel, that provides early error checking and
answers questions about the program under development. The environment has a certain …

We present a framework for the development of information systems based on the premise
that the knowledge that influences the development process needs to somehow be …

Distributed networks of personal workstations are becoming the dominant computing
environment for software development organizations. Many cooperative activities that are …

Process modelling is considered today as a key issue by both, the Software Engineering
(SE) and the Information Systems Engineering (ISE) community. However, most recent …

Large scale software development processes often require cooperation among multiple
teams of developers. To support such processes, SDEs must allow developers to interleave …

We have been working for several years on rule-based process modeling and the
implementation of such models as part of the foundation for software development …

The key topic is the way how the Merlin process-centered environment provides execution of
rule-based persistent software processes. Any software process in Merlin is described by …