A software engineering environment driven by event-condition-action rules and its trigger mechanism

Recently, PSEE's (Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments) have been investigated as a new architecture of SEE's in which the software processes are explicitly described and drive the user interactions. A typical PSEE is composed of two components: a resource manager and a process manager. The resource manager is responsible for the management and control of all objects manipulated during the software processes. The process manager is the component supporting an explicit formalism to describe software processes. ADELE/TEMPO is a sample of this new tendency. This paper presents the main components of the kernel of the ADELE/TEMPO system, i.e., its resource manager and process manager. Special attention is given to how these di erent basic components are integrated into a platform where software process models can be explicitly described by event-condition-action rules and supported by an active software engineering database. key-words: trigger, active software engineering database, role concept, process modeling, eventcondition-action rules, knowledge-based software engineering environments. This paper is a revised and extended version of \Software process model and work space control in the ADELE/TEMPO system", N. Belkhatir, J. Estublier and W. Melo, published in the Proc. of the 2nd Int'l Conf. on the Software Process, pp. 2{11, Feb. 1993, IEEE Press. 1