International Organization for Standardization

Information technology - Guideline for the evaluation and selection of CASE tools - Second Edition
 N ISO/IEC 14102

Annotation

This International Standard gives guidelines for the evaluation and selection of CASE tools, covering a partial or full portion of the software engineering life cycle. It establishes processes and activities to be applied for the evaluation of CASE tools and selecting the most appropriate CASE tools from several candidates. These processes are generic, and organizations must tailor them to meet organizational needs. The CASE tool evaluation and selection processes should be viewed in the larger context of the organization's technology adoption process.

This International Standard provides the following:

guidance on identifying organizational requirements for CASE tools;

guidance on mapping those requirements to CASE tool characteristics to be evaluated;

a process for selecting the most appropriate CASE tool from several tools, based on measurements of the defined characteristics.

Primary users of this International Standard are organizations that intend to adopt CASE tools to support their software life cycle processes. CASE tool suppliers can also use this International Standard to describe characteristics of their CASE tools.

This International Standard is not intended to apply to:

software engineering frameworks whose purpose is to provide mechanisms for data, control and presentation integration;

general purpose tools (e.g. word processors, spreadsheets) which can be used in software engineering activities, nor CASE tools of very narrow scope or specific purpose (e.g. a compiler);