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Presenter: Hausi Mueller - University of Victoria, Canada
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Date: Fri, April 11, 2003
Time: 13:30:00 - 00:00:00
Place: CIT 120 Centre for Innovative Teaching

ABSTRACT

Research tools in software engineering often fail to be adopted and deployed in industry. Important barriers to adopting these tools include their unfamiliarity with users, their lack of interface maturity, their limited support for complex work products of software development, their poor interoperability, and their limited support for the realities of system documentation engineering. Developing and deploying innovative research tools and ideas as extensions to modern, commonly used platforms may ease these barriers. Recently, tool builders and standards bodies have invented effective standards and interfaces for tool extension and customization. These advances have opened new research avenues on how innovations in software engineering tools can be made more easily adopted by inserting them as extensions to commonly used office suites and middleware platforms. This presentation concentrates on adoption-centric tool development and outlines how common office tools suites and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to improve cognitive support and interoperability of software engineering tools.