EVALUATION OF CASE TOOL METHODS AND PROCESSES - An Analysis of Eight Open-source CASE Tools

Stefan Biffl, Christoph Ferstl, Christian Höllwieser, Thomas Moser

2009

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 in 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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Biffl S., Ferstl C., Höllwieser C. and Moser T. (2009). EVALUATION OF CASE TOOL METHODS AND PROCESSES - An Analysis of Eight Open-source CASE Tools . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 41-48. DOI: 10.5220/0001865700410048


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Stefan Biffl and Christoph Ferstl and Christian Höllwieser and Thomas Moser},
title={EVALUATION OF CASE TOOL METHODS AND PROCESSES - An Analysis of Eight Open-source CASE Tools},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={41-48},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001865700410048},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - EVALUATION OF CASE TOOL METHODS AND PROCESSES - An Analysis of Eight Open-source CASE Tools
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Biffl S.
AU - Ferstl C.
AU - Höllwieser C.
AU - Moser T.
PY - 2009
SP - 41
EP - 48
DO - 10.5220/0001865700410048