AD/Cycle

AD/Cycle

(tool, product)Application Development cycle.

A set of SAA-compatible IBM-sponsored products for programdevelopment, running on workstations accessing a centralrepository on a mainframe. The stages cover requirements,analysis and design, production of the application, buildingand testing and maintenance. Technologies used include codegenerators and knowledge based systems as well as languagesand debuggers.

AD/Cycle

(Application Development/Cycle) SAA-compliant software from IBM that provides a system for managing systems development. It provides a structure for storing information about all phases of an information system including systems analysis and design, database design and programming.