Storage and Verification of Method Metamodel Presentational Specifications in a metaCASE Environment
By: George Goniotakis ; supervised by P. Loucopoulos.
Contributors: Loucopoulos, P.; Computation.
Publisher: UMIST
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Description: In Software Engineering literature the term first generation CASE environments is used to denote computerized aids that facilitate the application of a certain method (e.g. Information Engineering, SSADM, SASD, etc.) in the development of complex software systems. Experience with first generation CASE tools has caused users to question whether these tools provide adequate support for the chosen system development method, and whether the prescriptive nature of the method is acceptable. On the other hand, most organizations tend to adopt their own variant of the respective method and often find the tools restrict them or required them to follow a prescribed development path. MetaCase environments constitute the evolution of CASE, the second generation CASE technology, aiming to remove these restrictions by defining and generating CASE toolsets that support local variants of any method. The dissertation presents an approach to metaCASE technology as it is exemplified through Phedias, a metaCASE research prototype developed in the Information Systems Research Group of UMIST.
Notes: Thesis Number: 11252.

MSc.
Table of contents: title: Context and Overview
pagenum: 1
class: chapter
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 14
class: chapter
title: Conceptual Modelling; label: 3
pagenum: 29
class: chapter
title: Methods for Information Systems Development; label: 4
pagenum: 58
class: chapter
title: MetaModelling and metaCASE Technologies; title: Phedias Approach to metaCASE Technology, Requirements Determination and Modelling
pagenum: 80
class: chapter
label: 5; label: 6
pagenum: 107
class: chapter
title: Phedias Design; label: 7
pagenum: 123
class: chapter
title: Phedias Implementation; title: Conclusions, Evaluation, Contributions and Future Work
pagenum: 145
class: chapter
label: 8