Case tool

What is a case tool?

CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering; it can be used to mean any computer-based tool for software planning, development, and evolution. Various people regularly call the following 'CASE': Structured Analysis (SA), Structured Design (SD), Editors, Compilers, Debuggers, Edit-Compile-Debug environments, Code Generators, Documentation Generators, Configuration Management, Release Management, Project Management, Scheduling, Tracking, Requirements Tracing, Change Management (CM), Defect Tracking, Structured Discourse, Documentation editing, Collaboration tools, Access Control, Integrated Project Support Environments (IPSEs), Intertool message systems, Reverse Engineering, Metric Analyzers.

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