Reference Model for Frameworks of Software Engineering Environments (TechnicalReport ECMA TR/55, 3rd Edition)

摘要

Software engineering environments (SEEs) are typically built on hardware andoperating system platforms. Current SEE architectures distinguish between the set of facilities in support of the life cycle project, usually denoted 'tools', and a set of relatively fixed infrastructure capabilities which provide support for processes, objects, or user interfaces, denoted 'frameworks'. A major purpose of frameworks is to simplify the construction of tools by providing a set of commonly needed facilities, key integration components, and support for higher level constructs than those found in typical operating systems. Another purpose may be to support the porting of environments across a variety of hardware configurations and native operating systems. Tools may also use services provided by other tools, and framework components may use services from other framework components. The report describes a reference model supporting these framework services.