Experiences with an environment generation system
Steven S. Popovich, W.M. Schell, Dewayne E. Perry · 1991
We present our experience using the Gandalf environment generation system as a prototyping vehicle for the Inscape Environment. Our positive experience included experimentation, incremental evolution, multiple views, the coupling of semantic and editing actions, and the use of the domain-specific facilities. Our negative experience consisted primarily of problems with presentation and object management. On the whole, our experience was positive. 1. Introduction This paper is about our experiences using a generation facility, specifically the Gandalf system [1], as a prototyping technique for the Inscape Environment [2]. It is not about experience with a syntax editor; Zelkowitz [3] treats this area, discussing a similar (specificationbased environment) application. In this paper, we will try to avoid, as far as possible, discussing problems specific to syntax editing. We first provide a general view of the Gandalf System and the Inscape Environment. We then present our positive and neg...