A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT DRIVEN BY EVENT-CONDITION-ACTION RULES AND ITS TRIGGER MECHANISM

Recently, PSEEs (Process-Centred Software Engineering Environments) ha ve been investigated as a new architecture of SEEs in which the softwa re processes are explicitly described and drive the user interactions, A typical PSEE is composed of two components: a resource manager and a process manager. The resource manager is responsible for the managem ent and control of all objects manipulated during the software process es. The process manager is the component supporting an explicit formal ism to describe software processes, ADELE/TEMPO is a sample of this ne w tendency. This paper presents the main components of the kernel of t he ADELE/TEMPO system, i,e. its resource manager and process manager. Special attention is given to how these different basic components are integrated into a platform where software process models can be expli citly described by event-condition-action rules (E-C-A) and supported by an active software engineering database.