Rapid Application Development


Rapid Application Development

(programming)(RAD) A loose term for any software life-cycledesigned to give faster development and better results and totake maximum advantage of recent advances in developmentsoftware.

RAD is associated with a wide range of approaches to softwaredevelopment: from hacking away in a GUI builder with littlein the way of analysis and design to complete methodologiesexpanding on an information engineering framework.

Some of the current RAD techniques are: CASE tools,iterative life-cycles, prototyping, workshops, SWAT teams, timebox development, and Re-use of applications,templates and code.

RAD at BSO/Den Haag.

["Rapid Application Development", James Martin].