A contextual approach for process-integrated tools
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
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This paper describes the development of Phedias, a CASE shell, whose design objectives include ease of use and portability. Phedias supports method specification and CASE tools (in the form of graphical editors) generation. Within Phedias, a method is specified both conceptually and presentationally. The former is based on the metamodelling principle and by means of a graphical editor whose building blocks are the modelling constructs of a predefined meta-metamodel. The latter is via a form-based symbol definition interface which allows symbols to be defined, composed and viewed. Based on both types of specifications, Phedias is able to generate a CASE tool which supports and verifies the use of the method. A specified method, together with its CASE tool, can in turn be used to specify other methods.