Computer-aided software engineering (CASE): technology for improving software development productivity

Today, system developers are challenged to produce complex, high quality software to support explosive demand for new and revised computer applications. This challenge is complicated by severe resource constraints, forcing management to deploy new technologies, methods and procedures to manage this increasingly complex environment. Often the methods, procedures and technologies are not integrated. Therefore, they achieve less than desired improvements in productivity, or force management to make tradeoff decisions between software quality and developer efficiency.Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) helps system developers meet their challenge by providing a new generation of integrated system development tools which provides an automated environment in which to design and implement system projects. CASE technology enables system developers to improve both quality and efficiency, resulting in a net improvement in maintenance and development productivity.The objectives of this paper are to provide the reader with sufficient information about CASE technology to develop an evaluation and implementation strategy for utilizing CASE to improve systems development productivity.