Automating Systems Development

ISBN-13: 9781461283027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 516 str.

David R. Benyon; Steve Skidmore; David R. Benyon

Opis

1 INTRODUCTION These proceedings are the result of a conference on Automating Systems Development held at Leicester Polytechnic, England on 14 to 16 April 1987. The conference was attended by over 170 delegates from industry and academia and it represents a comprehensive review of the state of the art of the use of the computer based tools for the analysis, design and construction of Information Systems (IS). Two parallel streams ran throughout the conference. The academic, or research, papers were the fruit of British, European and Canadian research, with some of the papers reflecting UK Government funded Alvey or European ESPRIT research projects. Two important touchstones guided the selection of academic papers. Firstly, they should be primarily concerned with system, rather than program, development. Secondly, they should be easily accessible to delegates and readers. We felt that formal mathematical papers had plenty of other opportunities for airing and publication. The second stream was the applied programme; a set of formal presentations given by leading software vendors and consultancies. It is clear that many advances in systems development are actually applied, rather than re search led. Thus it was important for delegates to hear how leading edge companies view the State of the Art. This was supported by a small exhibi tion area where certain vendors demonstrated the software they had intro duced in the formal presentation.

Spis treści

Section 1 — Fourth Generation Languages.- Toolbox Design Philosophy.- The Impact of Fourth Generation Tools in Practice — Three Case Histories.- A Case History of the Development and Implementation of a System Using MIMER and Prototyping.- Flexible Design of Manufacturing Information Systems.- 4GL Productivity Through Information Engineering.- DB4GL — An Intelligent Database System.- Section 2 — Work Bench Tools.- Can Fact—Finding Be Automated?.- Accelerating the Analysis/Design Transition with the Transform Analyser.- Implementing Relational Data Bases: Automating the Mapping Process.- PLEX — A Structured Line Diagram Editor.- MAJIC — Automating JSP Program Design and Development.- Computer — Aided Design of Software: Research and Experience.- Section 3 — Work Bench Tools Within a Methodology.- Automating a Systems Development Methodology: The LBMS Experience.- Tetrarch — A System Development Methodology with Automated Tools.- Intellipse: A Knowledge Based Tool for an Intergrated Project Support Environment.- Methodologies and Tools for Real—Time Systems.- Making Structured Methods Work: Using an Embedded Expert System to Monitor the Use of Methodology in an Analyst’s Workbench — The Information Engineering Workbench.- Automating Information Engineering.- Introducing Workbench Tools into a Development Environment.- Section 4 — Open Tools.- IPSEs in Support of Teams.- Perspective Kernel — The Basis for a General Purpose IPSE.- Fortune — An IPSE Documentation Tool.- An Investigation into A Systems Development Technique.- A View Mechanism for An Integrated Project Support Environment.- Using Databases to Automate System Development.- Knuth with Knobs on — Literate Program Development.- Section 5 — Environments And Approaches: Other Issues.- Data Data Dictionaries.- The Role of the Corporate Dictionary.- Entity Modeling and Intelligent Dictionaries.- Automated Support Using a Data Mainframe Data Dictionary for Analysis and Data Modelling at a Major International Bank.- Application Environments.- An Application Environment.- High Level Design for Office Automation with Supporting Graphics Facilities.- Are There Non Real—Time Systems?.- The Use of Frame—Based Knowledge Representation Techniques in Prototyping.- Section 6 — Future Trends.- Time to Change the Culture of Information Systems Departments.- The Rubic Project: A New Paradgm for Information Systems Development.- Designing a Method Driven Software Development Environment.- An Environment Definition Model for Meta System Support.- Specifying Procedures to Office Systems.