Software environments workshop report

Abstract

A recent workshop identified a variety of issues fundamental to advancing the state-of-the-art in software environments. In addition, activities were specified to address these issues and provide incremental improvement in the near and medium term. Even though the sets of issues and activities are incomplete, they are reported here to seed the community's thinking about what is needed to advance the state-of-the-art for software environments and assist in establishing long-range goals, identifying and defining specific projects, and identifying the coordination needed among the projects.