From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 3 Dec 92 22:58:36 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio -state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!jtf@uc bvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Foreman) Subject: Request for reuse tool info Message-ID: <1992Dec3.175836.21788@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: -- Bucky Ransdell posted the following recently; reply at end From: wgr@rti.org (Bucky Ransdell) Subject: Request for reuse tool info Message-ID: <1992Dec1.152321.29538@rti.rti.org> Sender: wgr@rti.rti.org Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 15:23:21 GMT I am investigating tools supporting software reuse. I'm interested in both tools targeted specifically at reuse and software engineering environments that support it as part of the larger development process. The key feature for my purposes is a repository for software assets supporting classification schemes for archiving, organizing, and retrieving reusable components. I'd very much appreciate getting any information you have on this subject, including summaries of capabilities, product and company names and addresses, personal opinions, and pricing information. Please e-mail this information to me at wgr@rti.rti.org I will gladly post a summary of the collected information if it would be of interest. If this topic has already been discussed in this newsgroup, maybe someone can send me a summary of what was learned. I'd also like to know if there's another newsgroup that is a more appropriate forum for this request. Thanks a lot. Bucky Ransdell ------------------------------- The STARS Program (under DARPA) has been developing and integrating reuse tools into software engineering environments so as to support a process-driven, domain-specific reuse based approach to the development of software intensive systems. At least as important than tools, STARS has also defined a conceptual framework for reuse processes, defined several processes that facilitate domain specific reuse, e.g., domain analysis, reusable asset evaluation, reuse spiral life cycle process, etc, and worked to describe the inter-relationships between doamin engineering and application engineering from a reuse context. The three STARS prime contractors are integrating reuse library tools into development environments. * Boeing is providing a reuse library capability as an extension of the DEC Cohesion product, which provides an object oriented framework. This tightly integrated reuse library mechanism inherits the framework's multi-user client/server model and user interface and provides flexible asset classification and retrieval capabilities. * IBM is integrating a commercial library product, Inquisix, developed by SPS, into its environment. This product supports multiple classification and indexing schemes. * Paramax has developed the knowledge-based Reuse Library Framework (RLF) capability, which supports capture of a domain model and reusable assets in a semantic net and associated rule base. Through our technology transition program, these tools and the conceptual underpinnings are being evaluated and refined by volunteer contributors from the DoD contractor community, industry, and academia. All of these library tools are tailorable to satisfy organizational and/or domain needs. They also allow integration of other tools to enable additional processing over that supported by the library tools. e.g., display of design diagrams by the generating tool, extraction of components for test, exchange etc. These tools and other STARS products, as well as commercially related activities are being demonstrated at the STARS'92 Conference December 8-10, 1992 at the Omni-Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC. The conference program has been previously posted; included in the Reuse track are presentations on the STARS Reuse program, the conceptual framework mentioned above, software architectures and other reuse work in the DoD. Further information about STARS reuse activities (conceptual basis and tooling) can be obtained from: Teri Payton STARS reuse system architect Internet: payton@stars.ballston.paramax.com Telephone: 703-351-5308 Marlene Hazle Internet: HAZLE@MITRE.ORG Telephone: 617 271 2192 ----------------------------------- John Foreman STARS Program Manager jtf@dc.sei.cmu.edu John Foreman jtf@sei.cmu.edu Software Engineering Institute (412) 268-6417 Pittsburg, pa