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During the development of a schema design method for a data management system for a software engineering environment, we observed that we were making software process decisions at schema design time. The code of tools would embody aspects of the schema design, and hence the software process assumptions made at schema design time. If this observation is generally true, then we must either begin to develop new data management systems which do not force binding of software process decisions at schema design time, or recognize explicitly that designing a schema is designing, or at least constraining, a software process.
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Thomas, I. (1993). Observations on object management systems and process support in environments. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_14
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