Abstract
The SEE Software Engineering Environment is a practical, portable,
software development environment whose tools and concepts are nearly
independent of the edited programming language and the supporting
host editor environment. The SEE environment is a software
engineering environment which manipulates components of the
software lifecycle, in contrast to programming environments
which manipulate structured programming languages. Three prominent
features of SEE which distinguish it from other environments are the use
of a standard software module structure to support lifecycle-oriented
software tools, the use of source code as a vehicle for the collection
and analysis of project size and time cost data, and the use of tools
which preserve the developer's mental train of thought and display
screen context. SEE supports the four major project activities of
design, implementation, documentation, and project management by
providing tools and procedures which simplify or automate many common
tasks. The portability of the SEE environment is evaluated based on
experiences gained in moving the core of the original environment from
a Lisp-based mainframe editor to a C-based microcomputer editor, and the
utility of the environment is evaluated on the basis of several commerical,
institutional, real-time and application projects.
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