How should applications be developed?
Mary R. Sumner · ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems · 1985
In his text, Application Development without Pro grammers, James Martin argues that many of the problems of traditional systems development, including long development cycles, formal requirements specification, and formal maintenance procedures, can be overcome by providing users with the tools to develop their own applications. In the environment Martin describes, users will use report and application generators to make queries and to generate reports from existing databases. Working with systems analysts, users will also create prototypes of systems they need. (Martin, 1982, p. 55).