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A comparative case study of three database application development environments

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Iftikhar Ahmed,

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 29, Issue 4

Pages 68 - 76

https://doi.org/10.1145/335505.335513

Published: 01 September 1998 Publication History

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This paper describes an exploratory case study that investigates the claim that the object-oriented approach to information systems development reduces development effort and improves maintainability. Software metrics for development effort, complexity, and maintainability of three functionally similar 4GL database development environments, one objected-oriented and two traditional (relational) are compared. The results indicate that programs developed using the object-oriented environment needed fewer lines of code, had less volume, required less effort, were less complex and were more maintainable than those developed using the traditional 4GL environments.

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 29, Issue 4

Fall 1998

66 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/335505

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Meso PMadey GTroutt MLiegle J(2006)The knowledge management efficacy of matching information systems development methodologies with application characteristics-an experimental studyJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2004.11.00279:1(15-28)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2006
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