A development and management environment based on UML

Software development is exhibiting some noticeable characteristics: model-based development, team work, parallel development, incremental and iterative development, transregional development and so on. The development process is becomes so complicated that a CASE environment is requested to support some mechanisms: mass tool integration, staff cooperation, process management, extensive data sharing, data management etc. So, along with mass, cooperating integrative development tools, a management environment with the ability to accomplish the above-mentioned tasks is also in great demand. UML (Unified Modeling language) is one of the latest achievements in the field of software engineering. Based on the experience of process engineering, the authors are constructing a development and management environment supporting UML. They discuss in detail how this environment effectively supports the object-oriented (OO) development process based on UML, and how this environment satisfies the characteristics listed above. They devote themselves to solving problems in process management and the collaboration on data.