INTEGRATING COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS - A PRELIMINARY-ANALYSIS

Over the past several decades, the software development life cycle has encountered vast changes, and with these changes have come many obsta cles, From improving performance and increasing capacity in the 1950s and 1960s to managing burgeoning complexities in the 1990s, software d evelopment has taken two roads-computer-aided software engineering (CA SE) and object-oriented systems (OOS). But neither CASE nor OOS method s have fully exploited the potentials to dramatically influence softwa re development methodologies. This paper will identify the possibility of integrating CASE and OOS to provide for a more effective model of software development, resulting in increased productivity, reduced sof tware development costs and improved software product quality (reliabi lity, usability and performance), documentation and system maintenance . (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.