Supporting Software Engineering Processes by Object-Relational Database Technology

SENSOR Activities

SENSOR is further divided into the activities listed in the table below. These activities contribute to systematically examine the wide research area of object-relational database technology and the corresponding benefits for the software engineering application area.

The SFB501-EB activity mainly serves for evaluating concrete, currently available object-relational technology for the realization of a reuse repository, and, thereby, learning about how to effectively apply object-relational database technology.

This idea is continued by the OR-Benchmark activity, which develops an approach for empirically assessing object-relational database management systems in their capabilities of supporting objectoriented software development. The SERUM activity also takes the observation into account that object-relational data management facilities are used in objectoriented system development and provides generic methods to make object-relational database management systems comfortably usable in objectoriented environments.

The VirtualMedia and ORIENT activities examine general extensibility features of object-relational database management systems, which software engineering applications may obviously benefit from.