How should applications be developed?: an anaylsis of traditional, user, and microcomputer development approaches

Authors:
Mary R. Sumner
Affiliations:
University of Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois
Venue:
ACM SIGMIS Database
Year:
1985

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Abstract

In his text, Application Development without Programmers, James Martin argues that many of the problems of traditional systems development, including long development cycles, formal requirements specification, and formal maintenance procedures, can be overcome by providing users with the tools to develop their own applications. In the environment Martin describes, users will use report and application generators to make queries and to generate reports from existing databases. Working with systems analysts, users will also create prototypes of systems they need. (Martin, 1982, p. 55).