Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry

[agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news .sei.cmu.edu!awb@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Brown)]

I thought that some of the followers of this PCTE/ATIS/others debate may
be interested in a new book that may help with some of the *technical* aspects
of the discussion.


Alan Brown.

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A New Book from McGraw-Hill, Inc.

	``Software Engineering Environments: Automated Support for Software
	Engineering"

        by Alan Brown, Anthony Earl, and John McDermid.

	326 pages	ISBN 0-07-707432-7	$38.00



This book looks at a number of the problems of assembling CASE tools to form
Software Engineering Environments (SEEs). It examines the history of SEE work,
the requirements for a SEE, current experience with introducing and adopting
SEE products, and addresses the difficult problem of CASE tool integration in
a SEE.

Perhaps the most notable feature of the book, however, is an in depth
description of a reference model for analyzing and comparing SEE products and
standards. This is the work that has now beenaccepted by both the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the European Computer
Manufacturers Association (ECMA) leading to a technical report (NIST Special
Publication 500-201 and ECMA TR/55).

As well as describing the reference model in detail, a number of important
systems and standards are reviewed with respect to the reference model.
These are:

	ECMA PCTE

	DEC's CIS (a.k.a. ATIS)

	HP's SoftBench

	IBM's AD/Cycle

Hence, we believe that this is perhaps the most comprehensive book on SEEs yet
to be produced, and should have a great appeal to a wide audience who are
interested in these products and standards, and the whole SEE frameworks
debate !

About the Authors: Alan W. Brown is a member of the technical staff at the
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, PA, Anthony N.
Earl is a researcher at MarkV Systems, Cupertino, CA, and John A. McDermid is
Professor of Software Engineering at the University of York, UK.



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