Atributos dos Projectos de Desenvolvimento de Aplicacoes Informaticas

We advocate that, prior the development of computer based systems, attributes (that is the characteristics) of the system and the attributes of the project development must be identified. From an initial list of attributes we must select and refine the required set of attributes in order to achieve a satisfactory use of the different components of the software development project. The different components, such as the process, design methodology and software engineering environments will enable the development of systems holding the required attributes. In this part of this thesis we concentrate on the representation and interpretation of related attributes. Our study is based on the assumption that attributes should not be identified in vacuum, and should be based on the different classes of relationships between attributes of computer applications and attributes of the development of computer applications. Relationships between attributes follow a number of rules to be presented in this thesis. Attributes and relationships between attributes are used as the basis of one method to select the best proposals for every component of projects of software development. The second part of this thesis focuses on the process of identifying consequence relationships between attributes. We suggest that such processes can be represented by a number of models. We then develop a conceptual scheme to represent models of the process of identifying relationships between attributes. Finally, we adopt the conceptual scheme to represent some novel modelsAvailable from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Servico de Informacao e Documentacao, Av. D. Carlos I, 126, 1200 Lisboa / FCT - Fundação para o Ciência e a TecnologiaSIGLEPTPortuga