Abstract
Many companies are currently plagued with the problem of not being able to deliver information systems quickly enough to meet business opportunities. Management is generally dissatisfied with the development cycle time, and backlogs are often two years or more. Texas Instruments has a strategic program to solve this problem by developing an integrated set of tools to automate the systems life cycle of analysis, design, construction and maintenance, and to reduce associated costs.CODESTAR, the first major tool to be completed (currently for use only at TI), addresses both construction and maintenance. It supports applications ranging from simple to complex and can be used for the development of IMS, batch and TSO applications. For example, the current CODESTAR was developed using the previous CODESTAR.A pilot project assessed the impact of CODESTAR. The project's scope included the construction, checkout and installation of a 20-screen IMS transaction system involving 6,000 lines of code. The project had originally been designed, scheduled and budgeted for a non-CODESTAR methodology.Results were impressive. Both elapsed time and manpower were reduced by 50 percent, while computer costs decreased slightly.
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