UNDERSTANDING SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY [chapter]

WALT SCACCHI
1995 Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Trends for the Next Decade  
Researchers who create software production environments face considerable problems. Software production environments are large systems that are costly to develop. Furthermore, software production environments which support particular software engineering methods may n o t be applicable to a large number of software production projects. These conditions have formed a trend towards research i n to ways which will lessen the cost of developing software production environments. In particular, the
more » ... end has been towards the construction of meta-environments from which speci c software production environments can be created. In this paper, we attempt to categorize more than 60 meta-environment e orts. For each of the categories, we review research e orts which illustrate di erent approaches within that category. W e conclude by presenting an emerging common thread of requirements which links this eld together.
doi:10.1142/9789812798022_0010 fatcat:z5cn2hfl2rb4dajpiemmcvpppy