The GOODSTEP project: general object-oriented database for software engineering processes

• Published in: Proceedings of 1st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference pp. 410 - 419
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press 1994
• Subjects: Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Data engineering; Database systems; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Relational databases; Software engineering; Software tools; Systems engineering and theory
• ISBN: 0818669608; 9780818669606
• DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.1994.465239

The goal of the GOODSTEP project is to enhance and improve the functionality of a fully object-oriented database management system to yield a platform suited for applications such as software development environments (SDEs). The baseline of the project is the O/sub 2/ database management system (DBMS). The O/sub 2/ DBMS already includes many of the features regulated by SDEs. The project has identified enhancements to O/sub 2/ in order to make it a real software engineering DBMS. These enhancements are essentially upgrades of the existing O/sub 2/ functionality, and hence require relatively easy extensions to the O/sub 2/ system. They have been developed in the early stages of the project and are now exploited and validated by a number of software engineering tools built on top of the enhanced O/sub 2/ DBMS. To ease tool construction, the GOODSTEP platform encompasses tool generation capabilities which allow for generation of integrated graphical and textual tools from high-level specifications. In addition, the GOODSTEP platform provides a software process toolset which enables modeling, analysis and enaction of software processes and is also built on top of the extended O/sub 2/ database. The GOODSTEP platform is to be validated using two CASE studies carried out to develop an airline application and a business application.< >