CASE: The coming of age for automated software development

✍ Scribed by Hausi A. Müller; Ronald J. Norman; Jacob Slonim

• Book ID: 104634640
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0928-8910
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00132565

✦ Synopsis

Over the last dozen years, computer-aided software engineering (CASE) has continued to evolve and improve, but so has the state of software development research and its application in the commercial marketplace. What James Martin, in 1989, called "industrial-strength" CASE, was almost entirely PC-based. It was not even close to the two-and three-tier CASE architectures of 1996.

As software development moved into the 1990s, collaborative CASE and integrated CASE environments were beginning to appear in software development organizations. However, in the last five years, the quick and steep rise in demand for GUI-based software has provided numerous challenges and opportunities to CASE researchers, vendors, consultants, and practitioners.

The target that CASE is attempting to hit--large-scale software development--vontinues to move as industry adopts advances in technology. That creates a constant challenge to CASE acceptance in the marketplace. To face that challenge, CASE '95, the Seventh International Workshop on CASE, convened in Toronto, Canada in July 1995. Over 200 researchers, vendors, and practitioners met to assess the current state of CASE; review and discuss current CASE-related research; preview, sell, and research CASE tools; and discuss the direction CASE should take for the next few years.