Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is the use of software tools to assist in the development and maintenance of software. Tools used to assist in this way are known as CASE Tools.
Some typical CASE tools are:
- Code generation tools
- Data modeling tools
- UML
- Refactoring tools
- QVT or Model transformation Tools
- Configuration management tools including revision control
All aspects of the software development lifecycle can be supported by software tools, and so the use of tools from across the spectrum can, arguably, be described as CASE; from project management software through tools for business and functional analysis, system design, code storage, compilers, translation tools, test software, and so on.
However, it is the tools that are concerned with analysis and design, and with using design information to create parts (or all) of the software product, that are most frequently thought of as CASE tools. CASE applied, for instance, to a database software product, might normally involve:
- Modelling business / real world processes and data flow
- Development of data models in the form of entity-relationship diagrams
- Development of process and function descriptions
- Production of database creation SQL and stored procedures
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