An Evaluation of the Flex Programming Support Environment,

Abstract

Flex (1,2,3, and 4) is a multi-language PSe intended to be used for developing programs and software prototypes and for testing new ideas on software methods and designs. It demonstrates the implementation and use of some ideas for improving productivity both in program development and maintenance. It provides users with a large amount of software for programmer support but does not currently provide tools for host/target software development or for phases of the software development cycle other than programming, such as tools for project management or software design. Such tools could be developed. This is a personnel reaction to the Flex programming support environment (PSE) developed at RSRE, Malvern. The paper discusses the features needed for programming support and evaluates how well the Flex PSE satisfies these needs and how it avoids some problems familiar to users of conventional systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA181035

Entities

People

  • Margaret Stanley

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Compilers
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Fish
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • User Interface

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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