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An overview of PCTE and PCTE+

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Gerard Boudier,

Ferdinando Gallo,

Regis Minot,

Ian ThomasAuthors Info & Claims

SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

Pages 248 - 257

https://doi.org/10.1145/64135.65026

Published: 03 November 1988 Publication History

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The PCTE project has defined a Public Tool Interface on which Software Engineering Environments can be constructed. The interface definition was put into the public domain in September 1986 and several implementations on several machines now exist. The PCTE+ project was set up to define a Public Tool Interface, based on the PCTE work, that could also serve for the development of defense and other high-security applications. This paper summarises the current status of PCTE activity, presents the principal concepts of PCTE and the evolutions that are being proposed in the PCTE+ project.

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An overview of PCTE and PCTE+
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments

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SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

January 1989

257 pages

ISBN:089791290X

DOI:10.1145/64135

Editor:
Peter Henderson
SUNY, Stonybrook, NY

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 2
Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
Feb. 1989
257 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/64140
Editor:
Peter Henderson
State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 13, Issue 5
Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
November 1988
257 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/64137
Editor:
Peter Henderson
SUNY, Stonybrook, NY
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