SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION IN A COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK-ENVIRONMENT

This paper presents a prototype computer supported cooperative work (C SCW) environment that supports the engineering design process. In part icular, this environment provides collaborative tools that support com puter-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided software engineering (CASE ). This paper takes an high level look at the system as a whole and th en focuses on the method used to implement the CASE support. It addres ses how group members can simultaneously work on coding a program and then integrate their work to form a single program inside this environ ment, (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.