Practical Development Environments

This chapter describes ideas that are part of a development environment but are not specific to any particular kind of tool. Examples of such ideas are the following:

• Preconstructed environments, where all the tools for a development environment are provided "out of the box" for you

• Integration of tools to make them work better together

• Automation of the different parts of software creation

• Naming schemes

• Internationalization of products and tools for use in other countries