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- "CASE tools offer many benefits for developers building large-scale systems. As spiraling user requirements continue to drive system complexity to new levels, the CASE tools enable us to abstract away from the entanglement of source code, to a level where architecture and design become more apparent and easier to understand and modify. The larger a project, the more important it is to use CASE technology. As developers interact with portions of a system designed by their colleagues, they must quickly seek a subset of classes and methods and assimilate an understanding of how to interface with them. In a similar sense, management must be able, in a timely fashion and from a high level, to look at a representation of a design and understand what's going on. For these reasons, CASE tools coupled with methodologies give us a way of representing systems too complex to comprehend in their underlying source code or schema-based form.
- Object modeling CASE tools will probably have to continue to support multiple methodologies into the foreseeable future. Even when the UML achieves its expected market penetration, other methodologies will probably continue to have strong followers, who will keep various notations and methodologies in active use. On the language front, object modeling CASE tools must improve their support for mixed-language development that involves Java, C++, Visual Basic, and so forth." (DBMS and Internet Systems)
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