1.0 Participants
 
Faculty:

• Gregory Abowd
• Ashok Goel
• Mike McCracken
• Melody Moore
• Colin Potts
• Spencer Rugaber
• Linda Wills

Research Assistants:

• Bill Murdock
• Heather Richter
• Bob Waters

2.0 Ongoing Research & Development

Our major activities during the fall quarter was the first release of the Esprit de Corps Suite of legacy system evolution support tools.  Four tools were actually released, all of which interoperated using ACME.

• ISVis (Interactio Scenario Visualizer) - architectural extraction and localization tool. Version 1.1 was released comprising bug fixes, ACME interoperation and minor feature enhancements.
• SIRRINE (Self-Improving Reflective Reasoner Integrating Noteworthy Experience ) - model-based diagnosis and adaption tool supporting the MESA process.
• VisEd - a general-purpose architecture visualization tool.
• ACMEServer - infrastructure communications support tool for interfacing to ACMELib representations.

We continued to work on the other tools in the suite: MORPH, ScenICView, SAAMPad, and REMORA.

Melody Moore completed her PhD work on MORPH and graduated from Georgia Tech.

3.0 Notable Accomplishments & Technology Transition

• We have begun working with Spectra Research (a defense contractor in Dayton Ohio) to transition our reverse engineering technology. They have provided funding for a graduate student, and we have been included in their next SBIR proposal.
• We have made significant progress on our work at Nortel. Potts has consulted with them on the use of ScenIC for soliciting requirements on the next version of one of their telephony products. Abowd performed several SAAM session in support of their product evolution. Rugaber is porting ISVis to their HP-based computing environment.

4.0 Progress on Inter/Intra Cluster Collaboration

MCC visited the MORALE group at Georgia Tech. We have delivered our tools to them for evaluation.

We have visited researchers in the Architectural Tradeoff initiative at the Software Engineering Institute to initiate further collaborations on SAAM, automated capture and the SEI's new Architectural Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM).

5.0 Publications

• Heather Richter, Pascal Schuchhard and Gregory D. Abowd. "Automated Capture and Retrieval of Architectural Rationale." To be presented at the WISCA1 Working Conference on Software Architecture, February 1999. Also published as Georgia Tech GVU Center Technical Report GVU-TR-98-37.
• Gregory D. Abowd. "Software Engineering Issues for Ubiquitous Computing." Proceedings of ICSE'99, May 1999, to appear.
• An industrially-targeted  tutorial that incorporates ScenIC has been refined further. This was previously presented at ICSE'98 in Kyoto. The revised version was presented at CEIRE'98: The British Computer Society's Conference on Industrial Requirements Engineering in London, in October. It has been accepted for presentation at ICSE'99 and has been submitted to CAiSE'99, the Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering in June.
• The ScenIC guidebook has been abbreviated and released in conference paper form. The paper "ScenIC: A Strategy for Inquiry-Driven Requirements Determination" has been submitted to RE99, the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering.
• Richard Clayton, Spencer Rugaber, and Linda Wills. "Dowsing:  A Tools Framework for Domain-Oriented Browsing of Software Artifacts." Automated Software Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 1998.
• A technical report describing our work on Architectural Reconciliation has been prepared.

6.0 Travel

McCracken attended the PI workshop in San Diego.

At the invitation of the British Computer Society (and at the expense of the European Community's RENOIR project), Colin Potts attended CEIRE'98, the British Computer Society's Conference on Industrial Requirements Engineering in London to present the ScenIC tutorial.

7.0 Miscellaneous/Administrative/Problematic Issues

• We still have not been able to hire a graduate student to productize ScenICView.

8.0 Plans For The Next Reporting Period

Continue the Nortel MORALE evaluation and transition.

Continue the development of the Esprit de Corps tools.

Continued technology transition efforts with Nortel, MCC, SEI, and Spectra.

Revise the MORALE guidebooks.