Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: In the paper a form-driven approach to the application development is presented.Our development environment IIS*Studio suports presented form-driven approach.It is aimed to provide the information system design and generating executable application prototypes.A form type is central IIS*Studio concept, used to model the structure and constraints of various business documents.On the one hand, a set of specified form types represents a platform independent model (PIM) of a real system.On the other hand, it is a PIM of the future software application.Starting from such a platform independent specification, through the chain of transformations, IIS*Studio generates a set of relational database subschemas in the 3 rd normal form and also a global relational database schema by integration of the subschemas.It enables a full implementation of database schemas under different target database management systems.IIS*Studio comprises a tool for the formal specification of business applications, and a generator of the executable application prototypes.The case study presented in the paper illustrates main features of IIS*Studio application generator tool and the methodological aspects of its usage.We consider the chain of transformations from a PIM, through the series of platform specific models with different degree of platform specificity, towards executable program code, as a crucial in our approach.
Institution: University of Novi Sad
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2139695121