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From: neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Software Reuse - Design Support Systems
Message-ID: <478@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Feb 88 12:31:17 GMT
Reply-To: neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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Dear All,

        Just a quick word before we all start talking  about  the
various merits of Offices and Cubicals .

        One of the aims of the research project we are  currently
working  on  is to create a software development environment with
better support for software reuse  .  Current  thinking  suggests
that  software  reuse is most effective if it takes place as part
of the design process, so we are currently working on  developing
prototype  design  support  systems  .  For  this  we are using a
Smalltalk-80 system (ParcPlace VI2.2 VM1.1 under Unix on the  Sun
3/50) . [See comp.lang.smalltalk] .

        We have however not been able to find many  papers  which
discuss  supporting  the  design  process, rather than supporting
design document production .

        At present then we are attempting to contact the  authors
of  these  papers, and would be grateful to hear from anyone else
working in this research area .

        Thanks,

Neil

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