RECIPE: REQUIREMENTS FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT.

The authors discuss the formulation of requirements and principles for the construction of an automated software development system that supports a reasoned and well-managed process of computer-based information system development, maintainance, and use. It is argued that such development systems should allow software to evolve in two senses. An evolutionary system consists of an evolving set of components and interrelations between them, and …