A CASE Tool Evaluation and Selection Methodology

The Computer Aided Software Engineering is a paradigm that incorporates integrated tools, technology and a methodology that supports and supplements the software development life cycle. The basic objective of CASE is to provide a set of tools to the Software Development team to automate their efforts, bringing about enhanced efficiency and reduced time and efforts. Object oriented approaches have been continuously drawing importance in the area of CASE Tool evaluation research as discussed by (Church & Matthews, 1995; Massacci, Mylopoulos, & Zannone, 2007; Post & Kagan, 2000, 2001).This is highly beneficial for developing appropriate structured design and carrying out knowledge enhancement. Irrespective of whether it is the development of the demand model during the system analysis phase or the conceptual data model and the physical data model during the system design stage the ultimate goal of the CASE approach is to bring about extreme automation in software development. Some of the popular advantages of The CASE approach can be listed as: ABSTRACT