Process model for round-trip engineering with relational database

LA Maciaszek*

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Abstract

Iterative and incremental development of client/server database systems requires a round-trip engineering support, in particular in a design implementation cycle. This paper identifies some more difficult round-trip engineering scenarios and defines processes needed to handle those scenarios. The processes conform to the current stare-of-the-practice in forward and reverse engineering with relational databases. The paper identifies limitations of a tool-driven round-trip engineering. The limitations can be linked to three reasons: (1) the inability of a CASE/4GL tool to always generate correct incremental code after schema has been changed, (2) the need for a CASE/4GL to understand the reverse-engineered procedural parts written (or modified) in the implementation phase, (3) the requirement that a database content (extension) be re-instated at the end of each design-implementation cycle.

Technical limitations introduce a risk that design models and a database implementation become misaligned and the design-implementation cycle cannot be continued for iterative and incremental software production. Project managers need a process model to impose necessary rigour on design and programming teams to alleviate technical restrictions. The paper defines a project management strategy that enforces appropriate automated and manual processes on database development teams.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChallenges of information technology management in the 21st century
EditorsM. Khosrowpour
Place of PublicationHarshey, USA; London, UK
PublisherIDEA GROUP PUBLISHING
Pages468-472
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)1878289845
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000
EventInternational Conference of the Information Resources Management Association - Anchorage, United States
Duration: 21 May 200024 May 2000

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference of the Information Resources Management Association
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage
Period21/05/0024/05/00

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