Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!cadence!rene From: rene@cadence.com (Rene Churchill; x6266) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: List of CASE/CM Tools Message-ID: <1991Feb11.203849.29765@cadence.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 20:38:49 GMT Sender: usenet@cadence.com (USENET News) Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Lines: 124 I keep seeing requests for list of CASE programs on this newgroup. Here is a list of programs that I either used or looked over some information about. Take everything I say with a grain (or pound) of salt, as I'm looking for something to meet my specific needs. I need something that runs on a large number of platforms and that's hard to come by. I've been too busy to pester the correct people in my company to get some of this software in to evaluate, so many of these opinions are just based on the propoganda that the salepeople have sent me and other rumors I've heard about the specific programs. These are mostly Configuration Management tools. I'm in a group with two other people and yelling over the cubicle walls does just fine for us for what we need as far as project management goes. Some of the products like DSEE have tasklists, but I haven't looked into these features. Hope this helps. Please let me know if I've missed anybody good. I'm still looking around for new programs. Rene ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DSEE (pronounced dizzy) is put out by Apollo (now HP) and is an excellent program that has excellent version control and does builds for the user. These builds can be easily customized to a specific purpose and spread out over several different machines simultaniously. Excellent for large development projects. Problem: Cannot be ported to other machines. There were changes to the Apollo operating system just to support this product. Probably will never be ported to Unix. I don't know their main phone number, but their help line could get you in touch with somebody. (1-800-227-6556) SCCS, Unix standard, ported to everything and it's brother. Clumsy and not suited to many users working on the same project. I haven't worked with it, just talked to others. Many people place scripts around the various SCCS commands to help the user. I don't have the time. (Overworked and underpaid :-) RCS, Updated version of SCCS from what I've heard. Much better than SCCS. They both require a lot of scripts to make life easier on the developer. I don't have the time to create that many scripts. It does have most of features that I like in DSEE, however, they are harder to use. When I get the time to switch my project over, it will probably be to this. It's from Berkley I think, so it's cheap and ported all over the place. Softool Corp. sells a "Family of change and configuration control products" The literature looks good. This program does code control, builds, merging and other items that look good for group projects. It's also been ported to DEC, IBM, Sun HP, Harris, and IBM PC computers. Of the bunch, this is the one I'm most itching to try out. It's been around for a long time, so it's a very mature product. Softool Corp. 340 S. Kellogg Ave. Goleta, CA 93117 (805) 683-5777 Imperial Software Technology Limited sells some CASE tools that do builds and manage source code. They are out of England, the litereature is not that glossy, and the impression I got was of a immature set of programs. I also sent them a fax and email and have yet to get a response. (6+ months) Imperial Software Technology Ltd. 95 London Street Reading RG1 4QA United Kingdom Phone: 0734-587055 (add England area code, don't remember what it is) Usenet: apg@ist.co.uk Aide-de-Camp is another good looking product from it's literature. Sounds very mature and has many good feature mentioned above. It has an interesting idea about version control. Rather than independant versions of each file, it stores which groups of files change together. A nice idea for tracking wide spread changes. Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc. PO Box 555 Concord, MA 01742 (508) 369-7398 Procase is an interesting database for code control. It creates a database of all of your code and will display call graphs and other very fancy functions. However it's an immature product for all of it's bells and whistles. ie. It requires you to use it's editor, rather than vi or emacs. It does have vi and emacs emulation modes, but it's damn hard to emulate emacs. Have them give you a demo. It has a very impressive user interface, just not enough flexibility for me. Procase 210 Canegie Center, Suite 101 Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 452-8848 I just recieved some literature from a company that does testing software. The literature looks so-so. I've got most of the functionality from a bunch of scripts that I've written to run my regression tests. However they do have some screen saver functionality that would be useful for testing graphics. Software Research, Inc. 625 Third Street San Fransisco, CA 94107-1997 Another testing tool that's in the public domain is Btools, which is an adaption of the Gnu C compiler to do branch testing. I haven't finished compiling it so I don't know how well it works. Brian Marick Department of Computer Science 1304 West Springfield Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 Email: marick@cs.uiuc.edu, uiucdcs!marick 217-244-0263 -- Rene' Churchill rene@cadence.com Cadence Design Systems 2 Lowell Research Center Drive Experience is something you get Lowell, Mass. 01852-4995 just after you really needed it.