
COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 233
10.10 CATEGORIES OF CASE TOOLS
The schematic diagram of CASE tools is dawn in Figure 10.4.
FIGURE 10.4 Categories of CASE Tools
CASE tools are divided into the following two categories:
1. Vertical CASE tools
2. Horizontal CASE tools
1. Vertical CASE Tools. Vertical CASE tools provide support for certain
activities within a single phase of the software life-cycle.
There are two subcategories of vertical CASE tools:
(i) First Category. It is the set of tools that are within one phase of the
life-cycle. These tools are important so that the development in each
phase can be done as quickly ...