The Challenges of CASE Design Integration in the Telecommunication Application Domain

TL;DR

This paper discusses the challenges of integrating CASE tools in telecommunication software development and introduces the X model to promote component reusability within a specialized software process.

Contribution

It presents the BOOST project and proposes the X model as a new software process framework tailored for telecommunication applications.

Findings

Identified key challenges in CASE tool integration

Introduced the X model for component reusability

Demonstrated collaborative European research efforts

Abstract

The magnitude of the problems facing the telecommunication software industry is presently at a point at which software engineers should become deeply involved. This paper presents a research project on advanced telecommunication technology carried out in Europe, called BOOST (Broadband Object-Oriented Service Technology). The project involved cooperative work among telecommunication companies, research centres and universities from several countries. The challenges to integrate CASE tools to support software development within the telecommunication application domain are discussed. A software process model that encourages component reusability, named the X model, is described as part of a software life cycle model for the telecommunication software industry.