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A Software Development Environment Emphasizing Rapid Prototyping

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Abstract

A prototyping-oriented Software Development Environment (SDE) is described which is integrated, interactive and knowledge-based. It incorporates a model of software development which is based on the concepts of entities, processes, events and their relationships. In addition, a novel software product life-cycle is introduced which explicitly supports rapid prototyping. This SDE actively supports all stages of the software development process. The user services model for this SDE is based on the strategy of iterative refinement.

This SDE exploits the following technologies to achieve its capabilities:

  1. a)

    an object-oriented, interactive, user interface,

  2. b)

    an active, object dictionary/directory,

  3. c)

    a knowledge base specific to software prototyping,

  4. d)

    databases for representing software descriptions,

  5. e)

    a variety of software description transformation facilities,

  6. f)

    configuration management.

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    David A. Nelson (Data Structuring)

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    Reinhard Budde , Karin Kuhlenkamp , Lars Mathiassen  & Heinz Züllighoven , ,  & 

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Nelson, D.A. (1984). A Software Development Environment Emphasizing Rapid Prototyping. In: Budde, R., Kuhlenkamp, K., Mathiassen, L., Züllighoven, H. (eds) Approaches to Prototyping. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69796-8_12

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