Software Life Cycle Automation for Interactive Applications: The AME Design Environment

The model-based design environment AME offers CASE-tool support for all life cycle activities in the development process for interactive applications. The system allows the rapid automatic construction of interactive software from object-oriented analysis models (OOA) and/or OO-modelling information specified at later design stages. AME provides functionality for UI-structure generation, interaction object selection, layout prototype generation, dynamic behaviour generation, adaptation to user-specific requirements, integration of domain-methods and target code generation. Object-oriented and knowledge-based components provide automatic transition from one refinement stage to the next. System decisions can be visualised before code generation and may be revised by the designer