Authors:
Stefan Biffl
;
Christoph Ferstl
;
Christian Höllwieser
and
Thomas Moser
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Keyword(s):
CASE Tools, Evaluation, Open source.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
CASE Tools for System Development
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
Abstract:
There are many approaches for Computer-aided software engineering (CASE), often accomplished by ex-pensive tools of market-leading companies. However, to minimize cost, system architects and software de-signers look for less expensive, if not open-source, CASE tools. As there is often no common understanding on functionality and application area, a general inspection of the open-source CASE tool market is needed. The idea of this paper is to define a “status quo” of the functionality and the procedure models of open-source CASE tools by evaluating these tools using a criteria catalogue for the areas: technology, modelling, code generation, procedure model, and administration. Based on this criteria catalogue, 8 open-source CASE tools were evaluated with 5 predefined scenarios. Major result is: there was no comprehensive open-source CASE tool which assists and fits well to a broad set of developer tasks, especially since a small set of the evaluated tools lack a solid implementation i
n several of the criteria evaluated. Some of the evaluated tools show either just basic support of all evaluation criteria or high capabilities in a specific area, particularly in code generation.
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