CASE Environments and MetaCASE Tools
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چکیده
MetaCASE is a generic approach to computer-aided software engineering. In recent years MetaCASE tools have been developed both commercially and in research centers. Their usage domain varies from an all-purpose CASE to a software engineering teaching tool. They are claimed to provide solutions to some of the key problems surrounding adoption and use of traditional CASE tools. However very little work has been done in the examination and analysis of MetaCASE tools. This paper examines various opinions about software engineering environments and MetaCASE tools attempting to investigate the truth in many of their claims. In addition, reports our on-going research in developing a framework for studying MetaCASE tools. This framework is a comparative examination and categorization of the existing MetaCASE tools based on their architecture. To establish practicality we have included reviews and comparisons of ve sample MetaCASE tools. Finally, we provide a summary of our results and discuss open problems in this area.
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