Microsoft touts 'Assembly-Line' software building
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Microsoft says it will pursue a software-factories approach to development in upcoming versions of its development toolset-a strategy that some call a potential boon to custom development shops and to the overall domestic software-development market.
Jack Greenfield, a Microsoft Corp. architect and one of the key architects behind the Redmond, Wash., company's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), said that with its software-factories approach, Microsoft will provide templates and frameworks based on domain-specific languages to enable developers to build applications in an assembly-line fashion. Greenfield said Microsoft plans to provide these so-called factories for a variety of industries and markets.