Rapid Development of Electronic Product Catalogues

The production of electronic product catalogues (EPCs) is a creative process as well as a software design problem. This paper presents the results of the EPK-fix project. It proposes a development model for EPCs, defines a high-level specification language for the description of catalogues and implements a set of integrated tools to support the production process of EPCs. The iterative software engineering process starts with the requirements analysis and goes on with the catalogue design, both steps are supported by special editors. An automatic catalogue generation based on the design specification is the key of the rapid development of EPCs. The process is completed with a testing phase for the static and dynamic features of catalogues.