From Use Cases to Framelets for Building Application Frameworks

Framework-based software development has been proven a useful technique to develop an application. However, the development of a large application framework itself is considered complex. There are two major causes for this problem, the size of a framework and the vague framework requirements. The idea of framelet a small but complete framework, can be applied to solve the former. The framelet-based approach for framework development (FAFD) has been proposed to address the later. There are some improvements in term of use case requirements description to the approach after it was first presented. This paper aims to report such improvements as well as the ongoing researches on the FAFD.