Agents in Action: Using Intelligent Agent Objects on the WWW in Software Development and Maintenance

摘要

The rich resources of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) can be exploited greatly through the use of intelligent agent objects in support of WWW-based distributed object systems. Computer Command and Control Company (CCCC) will demonstrate such "agents in action" with two of its state-of-the-art products supporting software development and maintenance. The TraceNet Tool (TNT) is a sophisticated Java-based traceability management system that utilizes agent objects via CORBA to link and retrieve data artifacts on heterogeneous platforms in multiple tool repositories. Use of TNT avoids data migration or replication and project management overhead, across all phases of the system life cycle (SLC). One such SLC tool is Hyperbook, which is an intensive software understanding and visualization Java-based system for code analysis, architecture discovery, and systems integration. In combination, TNT and Hyperbook can enhance greatly the productivity in software development and maintenance activities utilizing the familiar and common features of the WWW while taking advantage of the vast resources of the Internet.