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From: lomow@calgary.UUCP (Greg Lomow)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: What is CASE
Message-ID: <1458@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 16:25:10 GMT
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: Computer Aided Software Engineering


I have started hearing a lot about CASE. What is it?

My understanding is that a CASE system should support all
aspects of the software development life cycle. What does CASE
offer that we don't already have? Or does CASE require more
things to be described in a form that can be processed and
maintained by a computer? What CASE tools support which portions
of the development cycle?

What is the difference between CASE and CAPM (Computer Aided
Project Management :-))? By this I mean what benefits could I
expect from using a CASE system that I would not get from using
a set of computer based tools for requirements analysis,
interface typing, test case generators, configuration
management, etc.

Finally, are there any commercial CASE systems? Alternatively,
what set of existing computer tools would you suggest a
small/medium sized project (20,000 to 100,000 lines of code)
needs to manage product development.
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