A Graph–Based Approach to the Construction of Tools for the Life Cycle Integration between Software Documents

In the course of the construction of a software system, software documents (requirements definitions, software architectures, module implementations, etc.) are produced which are written in different languages and describe (parts of) the system from different points of view. While the construction of structure–oriented editors for such documents seems to be well understood, the construction of tools for the integration between them has severely been neglected. In this paper, we present a formal approach to the semi–automatic construction of incremental integration tools which provide both passive and active support for inter–document dependencies (consistency analyses and generation/updating of templates for dependent documents, respectively).