Interface-Driven Software Development Tool

Abstract

We live in an age where the volume of paper-based information is steadily expanding. Personal computers have a great potential as tools for managing information. Effectiveness of using personal computers is determined by how easy it is to use them, since majority of the end-users are not computer experts. Compared with the advances in software design, the important issue of computer interface has begun to be addressed recently. There has been a research joining the database with the graphical interface to give users an easy-to-use method for accessing the database. With this, users navigate through the database by following the links from one piece of information to the next. There are several classes of softwares (languages) to build visual user interfaces: traditional, object-oriented, and interface-driven languages. This thesis, used an interface-driven software named Guide to build a prototype visual user interface to analyze the effectiveness of interface-driven software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA242113

Entities

People

  • Heung-taek Kim

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design