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From: de@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David England)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.sw.components,comp.misc,comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Prototyping and the Development Process
Keywords: prototyping, development, tools, literature, environments
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Date: 13 Sep 90 10:04:27 GMT
References: <3839@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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In article <3839@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> kraus@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Kraus) writes:
>
>
>I currently work for NCR in San Diego. We are currently looking
>into altering our Standard Development Process in order to incorporate the
>use of Prototyping during the development of new products. We are especially
>interested in an iterative development cycle where staged prototypes are
>presented to customer groups for evaluation, and feedback from these groups
>are then incorporated into the next stage of the prototype.
>
This has been mentione in the recent past in this group but the paper:

Boehm B W "A spiral model of software development and enhancement", ACM
SIGSOFT SEN, vol 11 no 4, Aug 1986, PP.14-24.

is very relevant to incremental prototyping. And as you are building
interactive systems and of the books on User Interface Design would be
relevant, e.g.


Shneiderman B, "Designing the User interface: stategies for effective
Human-Computer Interaction, Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Thimbelby H, "User Interface Design", ACM Frontier Series, Addison Wesely,
1990.

The later has a useful reading list that you might like to follow up.

Dave

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