Paper Info
Title
Database Engineering Processes with DB-MAIN
Abstract
Software engineering needs more and more to be supported by CASE tools. Since databases are at the heart of in- formation systems, they deserve a particular attention. More and more CASE tools allow method engineers to implement their own methodology and they allow users to record all their actions, with their rationales, in order to improve the quality of the de- sign and the quality of the documentation of the design. DB- MAIN is such a database oriented tool with a method description and a documentation generation facilities. But it has its particu- larities like its procedural non-deterministic Method Description Language, its well integrated multilevel histories and its user- friendly methodological engine. I. INTRODUCTION The need for controlling software processes has long been recognised as a strong requirement for improving the quality of software development and maintenance, just to mention two of the most critical problems. Database engineering is an important domain of information system engineering that de- serves a particular attention since a database is at the heart of every information system. Controlling software processes consists in analysing the engineering activities that have been carried out to infer useful information on the products, the processes and the actors. Clearly, this control must be based on some trace of the engineering activity. The trace, or (bet- ter) the history of a software process consists of the recording of all the activities, all the decisions taken and all the ration- ales that occur during this process. To be useful a CASE tool has to guide a database engineer all along the process while recording the history during all phases; and it has to do it the most user-friendly and helpfully possible.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2000
ECIS
a. process modelling,method engineering,process modelling,software development,information system,case tool,software process,software engineering
Field
DocType
Citations 
Personal software process,Software engineering,Computer science,Software system,Information engineering,Computer-aided software engineering,Software construction,Documentation,Database,Software development,Software requirements
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Didier Roland118579.01
Jean-Luc Hainaut2901254.54
J-M. Hick314316.78
Jean Henrard423881.65
Vincent Englebert523186.65