Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, 1997
xmb - Dancing in the Tar Pits: Using Tcl/Tk to Build a CASE Environment
Henry R. Tumblin
CertCo L.L.C., New York, NY
Charles E. McElwain
Open Market, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Abstract
Managing software across multiple build platforms and environments can
be thought of as dancing around a tar pit; if you slip and fall then
you may not be able to get out for a long time! There's far too much
knowledge about the local build environment required to enable
software developers and release engineers to build, test, and release
products. We intend to show that by using Tcl/Tk as a CASE
integration engine, the amount of time and training required to bring a
new developer, test or release engineer online is greatly reduced.
Product build environments become standardized and the cost of adding new
platforms is reduced.
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