
Chapter 10
COMPUTER-AIDED
SOF TWARE ENGINEERING
10.1 CASE AND ITS SCOPE
C
ASE stands for Computer-Aided Software Engineering.
CASE is a tool that helps a software engineer maintain and develop software.
The workshop for software engineering is called an Integrated Project Support
Environment (IPSE) and the tool-set that fills the workshop is called CASE.
CASE is an automated support tool for software engineers in any software-
engineering process.
Software engineering mainly includes the following processes:
T
ranslation of user needs into software requirements
Transaction of software requirements into design specifications
Implementation ...