August
1997 QUESTION 5 Total Marks: 20 Marks |
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| 5. | (a) Compare and contrast fourth generation tools and CASE tools. | [4] |
| (b) What are the five components of CASE tools? | [2] | |
| (c) Describe four advantages and four disadvantages of using CASE tools. | [8] | |
| (d) Although there are many reported successes (in term of reported software productivity) with CASE technology, there are also failures in which the use of CASE did not have a significant benefit on software development and maintenance. Give three causes of such failures. | [3] | |
| (e) Paying particular attention to your answer to part (d), give three ways in which an organisation might plan its implementation of CASE so as to avoid failures. | [3] |