Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models: An Action Research Programme

Abstract

This paper is an extension of previous research which developed a framework for evaluating and improving the quality of Entity Relationship models. The framework has now been used extensively in practice, including implementation in two of the largest commercial organisations in Australia. The experiences gained have been used to further develop and refine the framework. This paper describes how the framework has been used in an action research programme to quality assure individual data models as part of application development projects (product quality) and to reengineer application development procedures to build quality into the data modelling process (process quality). The results show ..