CASE TOOLS.

Abstract

More and more, CASE (computer-aided software engineering) is becoming vital to the success of large projects, and vendors are starting to make progress in filling two of the technology's most serious gaps - code generation and intertool communication. A key feature of all system-specification CASE tools is the ability to store descriptions of data elements and processes in a database (called the data dictionary). The tools use the information in the data dictionary to crosscheck every entry, not just against the design rules of your chosen methodology, but also against your previous entries. The tools detect and report errors such as data elements that are never used, inconsistent naming of data elements, and many others. A group of representative case tools with code generators and reverse engineering is presented.