Experiences in the Implementation of a Process-centered
Software Engineering Environment using Object-Oriented Technology
Sergio Bandinelli, Luciano Baresi, Alfonso Fuggetta, Luigi Lavazza
Politecnico di Milano and CEFRIEL
Abstract
Software engineering environments (SEEs) pose complex and critical requirements to the
supporting repositories. Object-oriented Database Management Systems (ODBMSs) are expected
to provide suitable features to successfully address these issues.
SPADE is a process-centered SEE being developed at CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Milano.
SPADE is built on top of an OODBMS and features process modeling and enactment, management
of process data and facilities to integrate development tools.
This paper reports the experiences gained by authors in defining the requirements for
SPADE's process data repository, and in assessing four different OODBMs against these
requirements. The assessment has been carried out through several prototypes and within
the context of the ESPRIT project GoodStep.
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