Supporting Information Integration in Large-Scale Software Development

保持软件工件一致性所需的工作量对软件项目的时间和成本贡献很大。特别是，由于用于创建和维护工件的工具和数据格式的数量令人眼花缭乱，因此很难在工件之间共享和集成信息。该项目执行信息集成问题的基础研究，以支持技术和机制的开发，从而减少在大型软件开发项目中执行此任务相关的时间和成本。所选择的方法开发了一个为信息集成提供一流支持的环境。设计了新的实验性的基于xml的数据格式以促进集成。设计和开发了一个生成器和翻译器环境，以便将信息翻译成新的数据格式，使这些信息可用于集成。开发了新的超媒体服务来捕获和指定工件关系。最后，在异构软件开发环境中解决这些问题的基础设施被设计和实验原型化，其中多个组织可能涉及一个软件开发项目。

The amount of work required to keep software artifacts consistent contributes significantly to the time and costs of a software project. In particular, it is difficult to share and integrate information between artifacts due to the bewildering number of tools and data formats used to create and maintain them. This project performs basic research on the issue of information integration to enable development of techniques and mechanisms that reduce the time and costs associated with performing this task in large-scale software development projects. The chosen approach develops an environment that provides first-class support for information integration. New experimental XML-based data formats are designed to facilitate integration. An environment of generators and translators are designed and developed to translate information into the new data formats, making that information available for integration. New hypermedia services are developed to capture and specify artifact relationships. Finally, infrastructure for addressing these issues in heterogeneous software development environments, where multiple organizations may be involved in a software development project, are designed and experimentally prototyped.