Information system design and prototyping using form types

Abstract

The paper presents the form type concept that generalizes screen forms that users utilize to communicate with an information system. The concept is semantically rich enough to enable specifying such an initial set of constraints, which makes it possible to generate application prototypes together with related implementation database schema. IIS*Case is a CASE tool based on the form type concept that supports conceptual modelling of an information system and its database schema. The paper outlines a way how this tool can generate XML specifications of application prototypes of an information system. The aim is to improve IIS*Case through implementation of a generator which can produce an executable prototype of an information system, automatically.