THE ADELE-TEMPO experience: an environment to support process modeling and enaction.

Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEE) have recently attracted a large number of researchers. In such environments the software processes are explicitly described and interpreted by the PSEE, allowing software activities to be automated, assisted and enforced. [Lehman and Belady, 1985; Osterweil, 1987] claim that this capability is a central element in a software development environment for the improvement of software product quality and software developers productivity. We have addressed these problems in the framework of the Adele project. The Adele kernel, initially a configuration management system [Estublier et al., 1984], has been extended with respect to 1) modeling and support of complex product models: the Object Manager (OM) 2) modeling and support of software processes: the Activity Manager (AM), and 3) modeling and support of software product evolution: the Configuration Manager (CM). For data and product modelling, an ER/OO model has been implemented inc..