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Building techniques in a development architecture framework

  • US 6,405,364 B1
  • Filed: 08/31/1999
  • Issued: 06/11/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for building systems in a development architecture framework comprising the steps of:

  • (a) specifying requirements of a system to be built and an implementation strategy to fulfill the requirements;

    (b) building the system according to the implementation strategy;

    (c) improving performance and maintenance of the system by using information relating to a previous system, and using tools selected from the group of tools consisting of interactive navigation tools, graphical representation tools, extraction tools, repository tools, restructuring tools, and data name rationalization tools;

    (d) encapsulating software components of the system with wrappers, the wrappers adapted to be changed upon other software components of the system being changed, wherein the encapsulated software components of the system remain unchanged;

    (e) testing the system to ensure that the requirements are fulfilled;

    (f) defining quality assurance standards, quality assurance tools and quality assurance procedures;

    (g) implementing quality assurance standards, quality assurance tools and quality assurance procedures;

    (h) managing service to a developer of the system based on at least one of service level agreements with the developer and operations level agreements with the developer;

    (i) performing a plurality of system management operations on the system selected from the group of system management operations consisting of start-up and shut-down operations, back-up and restore operations, archiving operations, security operations, and performance monitoring operations; and

    (j) planning service to the developer in order to anticipate and implement changes in the system.

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