Office Information Systems and Computer Science
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Prototyping as a tool in the specification of user requirements
ICSE '81 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Software engineering
Programming with abstract data types
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages
Prototyping: a nomenclature problem
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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A prototype electronic form system was implemented to test the feasibility of a high level form definition mechanism. This mechanism is based on the idea of abstract data types in programming languages. In this paper I will briefly discuss prototypes in general and then describe the prototype electronic form system --- specific objectives, design decisions and evaluation.Rapid construction of the prototype was facilitated by tools on the UNIX™ operating system that helped manage frequent and quick changes to software. The prototype has proved invaluable in providing a better understanding of the facilities that should be included in a form definition language and of the issues in implementing it.