DEADA - Development Environment for DBS Applications Based on the Document Approach

The primary objective of DEADA is the production of a development environment for DBS applications based on the document centred approach and OO paradigms, covering the design, the construction and the operational phases, and dealing with challenges posed by open systems, performance, and interoperability of distributed heterogeneous DB systems.

Lancaster, as research partner, is primarily involved in building the User Requirements Analyser which is the initial step of the design phase. The technical background for this work comes principally from the PREview module developed at Lancaster as part of the REAIMS project. For more details of this viewpoint-oriented method see the Requirements Engineering Good Practice Guide (Sommerville and Sawyer, 1997).

You can also download JPreview, a Java-based Requirements Analyser tool implementing the PREview method.

Lancaster Personnel:

• Pete Sawyer
• Frank Reiff
• Paul Rayson

IMAS (Barcelona City Council health-care organisation, Spain.)

SOLLAC (metallurgist group, Dunkirk, France.)

CCS - Centro de Cálculo de Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain.) [Lead partner]

CSEG, Lancaster University. (UK)

O2 Technology (Versailles, France.)

Funding:

• Esprit Project 22933