Ampersand Automates Agile Information System Development

Prototype framework that transforms your Ampersand model into a web application

Build database applications faster than anyone else, and keep your data pollution free as a bonus.

Syntax support for the Ampersand Definition Language

A collection of Ampersand models (*.ADL). A number of these models have been working on previous versions of Ampersand. This is however no guarantee at all that they still work, for not all of the changes to ampersand are backwards compatible.

All you ever need to know about Ampersand should be in here

Documentation about the tools that we use to create Ampersand. This documentation is readable online at

RAP is a tool that lets you analyse Ampersand models, generate functional specifications and make prototypes of information systems. It is the primary tool for students of the Open University of the Netherlands in the course Rule Based Design.

Setting up an ampersand (dev) environment through docker(-compose)

This repo is meant for collaborative writing of journal and conference papers about Ampersand.

Rule based software development

This repo is a temporary storage for a demonstration project

Software for automated testing the Ampersand software. Today, most of our testing is done by means of Travis-ci. Before that we heavily used our own sentinel to warn about bugs. Today, Sentinel is only used for issues with known bugs. Things that are known to break, and we didn't find time to solve them.

Storage of documents that could be served at our wiki