Building tightly integrated software development environments

About this book

The aim of this chapter is to introduce basic notions of software engineering, to stress the importance of software engineering in general and of software development environments in particular, to introduce the problem areas a developer is facing when trying to build a new software development environment, to give an overview of the IPSEN project, to discuss the highlights of the project, to relate IPSEN to other software development environment projects, and to introduce the structure of this book.