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Application-Oriented Software Development

5.1 INTRODUCTION

In object-oriented software development, software as a technical product is often the focus of the entire development work. We believe that this is not sufficient to ensure the development of high-quality software. Therefore, we propose an application-oriented approach. The main arguments are as follows:

Motivation for application-orientation

• Object-oriented software development should always be a means to an end. For application software this goal usually is supporting the customer-related business processes and services of an organization or company.

• Application software should primarily be targeted at the usage quality of the product. Usage quality covers those characteristics ...

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