Lecture 07

CSE-313
System Analysis and Design
Mohammad Shariful Islam
Lecturer, Department of CSE
Mobile: 01747612143
Email: sharifulruhan@gmail.com

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 Overview

• Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE)

• CASE tools
• why developed
• CASE tools in organizations
• Types of CASE tools
• Advantages & disadvantages of CASE tools

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 CASE
 Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) is
the use of different computer-assisted method
and software tools to help in the development
and maintenance of software. CASE allows
planners, designers, code writers, testers and
managers to share a common view of where a
project stands at each stage of development.

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 CASE Tools

• The CASE approach covers the entire cycle

of product development, including code
generation, product tools, repositories,
prototyping and other tools.
• Various tools which are incorporated in
CASE and are called CASE tools.

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 CASE Tools in Database application
CASE tools may support the following development steps
for developing data base application:
o Creation of data flow and entity models
o Establishing a relationship between requirements and
models
o Development of top-level design
o Development of functional and process description
o Development of test cases.

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 Why CASE Tools Are Developed
 Main purpose of the CASE tools is to decrease the
development time and cost and increase the quality of
software.
 CASE tools are developed for the following reasons:
 Firstly Quick Installation
 Time saving by reducing coding and testing time.
 Enrich graphical techniques and data flow.
 Enhanced analysis and design development.
 Create and manipulate documentation
 The speed during the system development increased.

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 How the Organization uses CASE tools
 Standardize the development: CASE tools help the
organization to standardize the development process. It
also facilitates coordinated development.
 Rapid Application Development (RAD): To improve the
speed and quality of system development.
 Testing: It helps in improving the testing process through
automated checking & simplified program maintenance.
 Documentation:
It improve the quality, uniformity and ensure the
completeness of documentation.
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 How the Organization uses CASE tools
 Project Management: It improves project management
activity and to some extent automates various activities.
 Reduce the maintenance cost: Use of CASE tools makes
the software easy to maintain and reduce the
maintenance costs.
 Increase productivity: Automation of various activities of
system development and management processes
increases productivity of the development team.

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 Environment having CASE
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 Components of CASE Tools
 Central Repository - CASE tools require a central
repository, which can serve as a source of common,
integrated and consistent information. Central
repository is a central place of storage where product
specifications, requirement documents, related
reports and diagrams, other useful information
regarding management is stored. Central repository
also serves as data dictionary.

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 Major categories of CASE Tools
 Some major categories of CASE tools are:
 Diagram tools
 Project Management tools
 Documentation tools
 Web Development tools
 Quality Assurance tools
 Maintenance tools

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 Types of CASE Tools
CASE tools can be broadly divided into the following
parts based on their use at a particular SDLC stage:
 UPPER CASE Tools
 LOWER CASE Tools
 INTEGRATED CASE Tools

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 Types of CASE Tools

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 Types of CASE Tools
 Upper Case Tools - Upper CASE tools are used in
planning, analysis and design stages of SDLC.
 Lower Case Tools - Lower CASE tools are used in
implementation, testing and maintenance.
 Integrated Case Tools - Integrated CASE tools are
helpful in all the stages of SDLC, from Requirement
gathering to Testing and documentation.

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 Types/Categories of CASE Tools
Positioning of CASE tools in a Software Application development:

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 Advantages of CASE Tools:
CASE tools improve quality and productivity of software.
Produces system that more closely meet user needs and
requirements.
Produces system with excellent documentation.
Tools are more effective for large scales systems.
Produce more flexible system.
CASE tools reduce the time for error correction and
maintenance.

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 Disadvantages of CASE Tools:
Very Complex
Not easily maintainable
Good quality CASE tools are very expensive.
Require training of maintenance staff.
May be difficult to use with existing system.

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 Characteristics of a successful CASE Tool:
A CASE tool must have the following characteristics in order to be
used efficiently:
 A standard methodology: A CASE tool must support a standard
software development methodology and standard modeling
techniques.
 Flexibility: Flexibility in use of editors and other tools. The CASE
tool must offer flexibility and the choice for the user of editors'
development environments.
 Support for reverse engineering: A CASE tools must be able to
generate complex models from already generated code.

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 Characteristics of a successful CASE Tool:
 Strong Integration: If a change is made at any stage, for
example, in the model, it should get reflected in the code
documentation and all related design and other documents.
 Integration with testing software: The CASE tools must provide
interfaces for automatic testing tools that take care of regression
and other kinds of testing software under the changing
requirements.
 On-line help: The CASE tools provide an online tutorial.

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 Examples of CASE Tools

 Umbrello is a Unified Modelling Language (UML)

modelling tool and code generator. It can create diagrams
of software and other systems in the industry-standard
UML format, and can also generate code from UML
diagrams in a variety of programming languages.

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 Examples of CASE Tools

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 Examples of CASE Tools

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 Examples of CASE Tools

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 Questions for this chapter for exam?
1. Define CASE and CASE tools.
2. How CASE tools are user for developing database apps?
3. Why CASE tools are developed?
4. How organizations use CASE tools?
5. Major categories of CASE tools.
6. Types of CASE tools.
7. Advantage and disadvantages of CASE tools.
8. Characteristics of successful CASE tools.

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