CADDY: A Highly Integrated Environment to Support Conceptual Database Design

This experience report describes the development of the CASE environment CADDY Computer-Aided Design of non-traditional Databases 1 which oflers an integrated set of tools for specifying, analyzing, and prototyping a database application on a conceptual level. This environment was designed and implemented during the last four years at Braunschweig Technical University (Germany). The process of developing this environment consisted of a sequence of development steps, where each step corresponded to (at least) one of five main tasks. The intention of this report is to describe these five tasks. At the end, we will critically reflect on the achieved results and solved problems, but also on still open questions of the CADDY environment. 1 Task 1: Development of a semantically well-defined theoretical back-