Views on an object oriented software engineering environment

Software development activities and artifacts may be approached from the perspective of many users and tools. Each perspective offers different information and functionality to perform particular activities. The ADDD (A Depository of Development Documents) SEE (software engineering environment), which is centered around an active object-oriented repository for all software documents produced during the development process, is described in detail. ADDD supports perspectives on shared objects both as a metaphor for user interaction and tool integration. The user uses views to interact with shared objects and other users. On the architecture level view objects are used to model the interaction of tools with shared objects in a multi-user client-server environment. Based on this architecture, the ADDD prototype offers task management and software configuration management facilities.