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ESEC 1993: Software Engineering — ESEC '93 pp 145–162Cite as

Databases for software engineering environments

The goal has not yet been attained

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We argue that, despite a substantial number of proposed and existing new database systems, a suitable database system for software development environments and especially process-centred environments does not yet exist. We do so by reviewing and refining the requirements for such systems in detail based on a number of examples. We then sketch a number of available and archetypical database systems and indicate why they do not meet these requirements.

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  1. University of Dortmund, Informatik 10, D-44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Wolfgang Emmerich & Wilhelm Schäfer

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Queensland, 4072, Queensland, Australia

    Jim Welsh

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Emmerich, W., Schäfer, W., Welsh, J. (1993). Databases for software engineering environments. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_11

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