CASE Tools

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CASE Tools
Computer-Aided Software Engineering

• Overview

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What is CASE?

• Set of tools to aid in the systems development
  process
• Generally include
• diagramming tools
• business rules
• data repository

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Which one we will use?

• Visible Analyst student edition
• Process Modeling (Data Flow Diagrams)
• Data Modeling (Entity-Relationship Diagrams)
• Repository
• It has the ability to generate Access DDL
• MIS Lab
• Every other machine has VA (8 groups)
• Only 2 projects can be created

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How to start?

• What you will see and do
• Main VA screen as show in this image
• Create a project from File, New Project
• this dialog will open
• give a name and description
• select Gane Sarson and leave other options as
  they are
• Create your first diagram
• Select File, New Diagram and select the type you
  want in the example Data Flow
• Use this part of the toolbar to draw, and File,
  Save to save it
• You can open your diagram by using File, Open
  Diagram and selecting from a list like this one

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Examples

• A familiar one -- Print Shop
• The VA tutorial project
• data flow diagram of DMV
• you can also tile two diagrams
• by double or right clicking on an object you can
  define it
• data model of the DMV system
• you can also define each data element

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Class demonstration
We will see now a class demonstration of VA,
very similar to what I have presented.