The project GRASPIN and its CASE environment prototypes: an overview

Abstract Within the last six years, the ESPRIT project GRASPIN has developed prototypes of a personal software engineering environment to support the construction and verification of distributed and non-sequential software systems. The GRASPIN environment represents an attempt to enable a smooth transition from today's state-of-the-art technique to 3rd generation CASE environments. It provides a flexible framework with extensive facilities for the incorporation of new methods and tools, and for the customization to a variety of languages, applications, and target systems. This paper gives an overview of the GRASPIN project, describes the main characteristics of its CASE environment prototypes, and relates the GRASPIN concept to current software development environments.