Understanding Integration in a Software Development Environment

In the past ten years there has been a great deal of interest in the concept of a Software Development Environment SDE as a complete, unifying framework of services supporting most or all phases of software development and maintenance. We identify three levels at which the issue of integration in a SDE arises as a key concept - at the mechanism level interoperability of the hardware and basic software, at the end-user services level combining the methods and paradigms of the various tools, and at the process level adapting end-user services to the working practices of different users, projects and organizations. CASE integration, Process integration, Software development environment.