Open Source project demonstrates SCCH competence in tool integration
BugClipse is an Open Source solution developed by SCCH in fiscal year 2005/2006 to flexibly integrate error management into development and production systems.
Overview
Software development can be a personnel-intensive. Automation of software development activities and flexible integration of tools can achieve advantages in quality and productivity. However, automation does not mean standardization, but enables optimal support of individual processes while retaining a high measure of flexibility. Researchers at SCCH analyze the activities in the development process and implement innovative tools that can be flexibly integrated into various environments to create a customized solution for a company.
The challenge
Error monitoring tools for software systems, such as Bugzilla, are widespread but fail to offer a general interface for their integration in third-party systems. This makes it difficult to integrate automatic error monitoring and recording in any given environment such as development, testing or production systems.
The solution
BugClipse offers an interface that integrates any error monitoring system. This could mean combining Bugzilla with the popular development environment Eclipse; this remedies the media gap between Bugzilla’s Web interface and Eclipse, and developers can report and process errors directly in Eclipse.
SCCH’s tool integration concept from the BugClipse project enables merging heterogeneous tools to an application behind a modern interface that offers users profoundly simplified handling. Productivity rises through integration, which also increases the acceptance of the individual tools.
This tool integration concept, which merges tools in the Eclipse platform to a system, was also employed in other successful projects. Thereby SCCH demonstrated completely novel possibilities of integration of heterogeneous tools under a modern interface.