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Software Factory Integration and Experimentation

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The main objective of the SFINX project was to contribute to the emergence of an advanced software engineering environment identified as PCTE-based software factories. It intends to provide the software factory builders with the appropriate support in terms of methodology, mechanisms and tools for selecting and integrating software factory components according to the specific needs and characteristics of their organisations.
Specific objectives were to:
-verify and promote the usability and availability of PCTE as basis for software factory implementation
-derive, from practical experimentation, mechanisms allowing the integration of already existing tools in a software factory
-establish a basis for tool analysis and characterisation.
The main objective of the project was to contribute to the emergence of an advanced software engineering environment identified as portable common tool environment (PCTE) based software factories. it intended to provide the software factory builders with the appropriate support in terms of methodology, mechanisms and tools for selecting and integrating software factory components according to the specific needs and characteristics of their organizations. A reference model of a software factory was defined, and contacts established with other organizations working in the same software factory field. During the second phase, the project has worked on the technical aspects of a PCTE based software factory and on the corresponding activities of the software factory building process, namely tool characterization and integration, and PCTE evaluation and promotion. It has developed a tool questionnaire, tool classification schemes and a parser/tracer supporting the analysis and the evaluation of the use that a tool makes of its environment. It has also developed and experimented integration techniques and mechanisms focusing on the data integration aspect. Documents and training courses have been produced to ensure the promotion and dissemination of the software factory and PCTE concepts. During the third and final phase, more emphasis was given to the organizational aspects of a software factory and to the design phase of the software factory building process. The project has developed a guide for designing a software factory and has identified mechanisms and tools which should supply the software factory builder with the appropriate and necessary support. These include at the strategic planning level, a decision map; at the modelling level, predefined process models, rules and tools for selecting and customising them and to support the definition of the software factory meta base; and at the tool selection level, a qualification system.
The one-year definition phase aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of SFINX's objectives and to establish the technical basis necessary to achieve them. A reference model of a software factory was defined, and contacts established with other organisationsworking in the same software factory field (ISF of Alvey, and EAST and ESF of EUREKA).
During the second (two-year) phase, the project has worked on the technical aspects of a PCTE-based software factory and on the corresponding activities of the software factory building process, namely tool characterisation and integration, and PCTE evaluation and promotion. It has developed a tool questionnaire, tool classification schemes and a parser/tracer supporting the analysis and the evaluation of the use that a tool makes of its environment. It has also developed and experimented integration techniques and mechanisms focusing on the data integration aspect. Documents and training courses have been produced to ensure the promotion and dissemination of the software factory and PCTE concepts.
During the third and final phase, more emphasis was given to the organisational aspects of a software factory and to the design phase of the software factory building process. The project has developed a guide for designing a software factory and has identified mechanisms and tools which should supply the software factory builder with the appropriate and necessary support:
-at the strategic planning level: a decision map
-at the modelling level: predefined process models, rules and tools for selecting and customising them and to support the definition of the software factory meta base
-at the tool selection level: a qualification system.
Exploitation
The SFINX project played an important part in the PCTE initiative. It has contributed to the enforcement of the PCTE concept as a European standard for tool development and as a backbone of integrated software engineering environments. SFINX has completed its contribution to the dissemination of European integrated environments by concentrating on the problem of software factory design and Installation whose complexity has appeared as a difficult barrier to overcome for non-expert users and as slowing dow n the acceptance of PCTE-based environments.

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Letzte Aktualisierung: 24 November 1992

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