Cyber Physical System (CPS) development is highly heterogeneous, involving many stakeholders, each of which interacts with its development artifacts through a variety of tools, and within several engineering processes. Successful CPS development requires these tools to be well-integrated into a Development Environment (DE) in order to support its many stakeholders and processes. In this paper we identify the main challenges facing DE development for CPSs, and presents a roadmap to meet these challenges. We here take the position that focus should be redirected from trying to achieve a single, one-size-fits-all solution to such a heterogeneous problem. Instead, focus should be placed on supporting the development of highly-customized DEs, which readily can be applied to industrial development. Such a highly-customized DE should fit the needs of a particular development organization, while at the same time taking advantage of relevant standardization efforts.
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