System Analysts & Application Programmers (Software Engineers)

System Analysts & Application Programmers (Software Engineers)

System analysts
determine the requirements of end users, especially naive and parametric end users, and develop specifications for canned transactions that meet these requirements.

Application programmers
implement these specifications as programs; then they test, debug, document, and maintain these canned transactions.

Such analysts and programmers (nowadays called software engineers) should be familiar with the full range of capabilities provided by the DBMS to accomplish their tasks