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Predesign

This approach explores pre-design in prototyping for refining requirements, making design decisions, and capturing changes efficiently. It presents steps, benefits, and tools for seamless database and application development.

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Predesign

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  1. Predesign

  2. Predesign • A prototyping stage • Aims of prototyping • Last validation of requirements • Discovery of new requirements • Making of design decisions • Applications • Database

  3. Deliverables • Design • Physical Design of Database • Physical Design of Applications • Pre-Design • Standards for GUI, Coding, Naming • Conceptual Application Design • Plan for Design of DB and Applications

  4. Traditional View of Designer • Typical Use of Designer • Transform Functions into Modules • Develop Modules into Rough Shape in Designer • Generate Forms • Develop forms in Developer • Never look back • Application Lost to Designer

  5. Prototyping Approach • ‘Capture Design of Form/Report’ utilities capture work done in Developer (except layout) • Application can be regenerated instead of reprogrammed • Changes to Database can also be Captured

  6. Benefits of Generation • Implementation stays connected to requirements and design • Redesign (maintenance) much less costly • Look & Feel modification much easier

  7. Prototyping Steps • Create rough versions of tables, modules, module network with DDT and ADT • Generate Database w/o Modification • Generate ‘Throw-away’ Forms to Populate Database with Sample Data. • Create Basic Structure of Modules in Designer

  8. Prototyping Steps (2) • Set Generator Preferences to Establish Design Standards • Generate Forms/Reports • Use Prototype: • Modify Forms/Reports in Developer • Modify Database • Capture Changes back into Design

  9. Capturing DB Changes • Experimentation with prototype results in DB modifications • Manual Capture of Changes: • Delete extra repository columns • Delete unused repository tables • Capture design of server • New tables • New columns

  10. Capturing Application Changes • New form or existing form with new code: ‘Capture Design of Form’ utility. • Slightly modified or combined or deleted form: make changes manually in RON or DE. • Navigation Changes: Manually modify module structure.

  11. Tracking Requirements • Are we doing everything that needs to be done? • Tracked requirements to functions • User extensibility • Now track them again to modules. • User extensibility manually • Via Repository API script

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