Software engineering tools for system development

Abstract

With the increasing cost of application system development, the lack of skilled personnel and the growth in the demand for new systems, data processing managers are being forced to consider new approaches to system development. The use of software engineering methods and practices have gone some way towards solving their problems. However, although software engineering methods provide increased quality, the need to further raise development efficiency is still required. This article describes the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools as a solution to the problem of the growing ‘software backlog’.