Title: Facilitating information system development with Panoramic view on data,
Abstract: The increasing amount of information and the absence of an effective tool for
assisting users with minimal technical knowledge lead us to use associative
thinking paradigm for implementation of a software solution - Panorama. In this
study, we present object recognition process, based on context + focus
information visualization techniques, as a foundation for realization of
Panorama. We show that user can easily define data vocabulary of selected
domain that is furthermore used as the application framework. The purpose of
Panorama approach is to facilitate software development of certain problem
domains by shortening the Software Development Life Cycle with minimizing the
impact of implementation, review and maintenance phase. Our approach is focused
on using and updating data vocabulary by users without extensive programming
skills. Panorama therefore facilitates traversing through data by following
associations where user does not need to be familiar with the query language,
the data structure and does not need to know the problem domain fully. Our
approach has been verified by detailed comparison to existing approaches and in
an experiment by implementing selected use cases. The results confirmed that
Panorama fits problem domains with emphasis on data oriented rather than ones
with process oriented aspects. In such cases the development of selected
problem domains is shortened up to 25%, where emphasis is mainly on analysis,
logical design and testing, while omitting physical design and programming,
which is performed automatically by Panorama tool.