The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is a graphical tool that is used to design a Multi-Agent System following the Prometheus Methodology. This paper describes the latest version of PDT which is now integrated into the Eclipse platform, enabling the users to accomplish the full development life-cycle of an agent-oriented application in one IDE and also inherit the rich set of product development fe...

visualizing large sets of data. The design of the Data Visualizer tool was complete in March 1995, and the tool is scheduled for inclusion with the next major version of the DEC FUSE software. DEC FUSE is a programming environment for UNIX that provides an integrated suite of graphically oriented tools built on the commonly used UNIX programming tools. For more information on the DEC FUSE envir...

There are a number of competing component models in use today. Most are language-independent, but also platform-dependent and not designed to support a tool-based development paradigm. Espresso is a new platform-independent component model whose primary goal is to make it easy for tools to manipulate and compose Espresso components interactively during the software development process. This pap...

This paper describes the design and motivations behind the Desert environment., The Desert environment has been created to demonstrate that the facilities typically associated with expensive data integration can be provided inenpensively in an open framework. It uses three integration mechanisms: control integration, simple data integration based on fragments, and a common editor. It ofsers a v...

This position paper advocates the importance of analyzing how users interact with tools that aid software development. Answering “What will the user do (next) in the tool?” can help improve not only the tool’s usability but also its underlying technology in a common usage scenario. While a lot of progress has been made in improving the underlying technology for such tools, less effort has been ...

1 Abstract—Nowadays, to achieve competitive advantage, the industrial companies are considering that success is sustained to great product development. That is to manage the product throughout its entire lifecycle. Achieving this goal requires a tight collaboration between actors from a wide variety of domains, using different software tools producing various product data types and formats. The...

CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools are believed to have played a critical role in improving software productivity and quality by assisting tasks in software development processes since 1970s. Several parametric software cost models adopt “use of software tools” as one of the environmental factors that affects software development productivity. Several software cost models assess t...

This paper explores technical issues in the design of programming tools, development environments, simulations, code examples, user interface frameworks and pedagogies for a university-level course on object-oriented software development. The course, M206 ‘Computing: An Object-oriented Approach’ has been specifically developed for distance learning, and is enrolling over 5,000 students per year...

Surviving in the increasingly competitive software business requires more than hiring smart, knowledgeable engineers and buying the latest development tools. You also need to use effective software development processes, so those smart engineers can systematically use the best technical and managerial practices to successfully complete their projects. More organizations are looking at software ...

During a system’s life cycle, new requirements or changes in the existing ones imply modifying the system. Aspect-oriented software development is a new approach to the modularization of systems, yet it does not provide mechanisms to aid the evolution of software. The effort required to support the evolution greatly depends on the tool used for its construction. For this reason, the selection o...