An analysis of software development environments
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Vol. 6 (5) , 19-27
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1005928.1005932
Abstract
Software development environments are now being proposed as a way to solve problems of software development such as high costs and hidden errors. These environments have tremendous potential to structure the programming process, making it more reliable and error free. The potential also exists to ignore important costs associated with these environments. The large impact of software development environments makes them worthy of discussion. Topics of interest include 1) the package of a software development environment and 2) recurring dilemmas associated with the use of software development environments in organizations. A definition of a software development environment is provided and the dominant trends, with respect to costs, benefits and users, are discussed.Keywords
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