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CASE / Computer Aided Software Engineering Tools
A tool is any device, object or a kind of an operation used to achieve a specific
task. The complete and correct description of the system is as important as the
system itself. The analyst uses case tool to represent and assemble all the information
and the data gathered about the system.
Most of the organizations have to follow some kind of procedures and they are
required to make all sorts of decisions from time to time. For the job of the
analyst both these procedures and decision-making processes of the business system
under investigation are equally important.
Expressing business processes and rules in plain text is very cumbersome and
difficult process. It requires a lot of effort. Moreover, it does not guarantee
if the reader will understand it well. So representing these things graphically
is a good choice. So CASE Tools are useful in representing business rules and
procedures of organization in graphical way. It requires less effort and it is
easy to understand.
Some CASE tools are designed for creating new applications and not for maintaining
or enhancing existing ones hence if an organization is in a maintenance mode,
it must have a CASE tool that supports the maintenance aspect of the software
developed. Many a times the large projects are too big to be handled by a single
analyst thus here the CASE too must be compatible enough to allow for partitioning
of the project.
Efficient and better CASE tools collect a wide range of facts, diagrams, and
rules, report layouts and screen designs. The CASE tool must format the collected
data into a meaningful document ready to use.
Tools for DFD or a data flow diagram is a perfect example of a good CASE tool
and it will be dealt in the later sessions.
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