sani@wmt.UUCP (Sandor Nieuwenhuijs) (11/09/89)
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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WESTMOUNT TECHNOLOGY, one of the leading CASE tool vendors
announces the availability of its CASE products on the DEC
product lines (VAX/VMS, VAX/Ultrix and DECstation).
Major features are:
- Complete generation of SQL and 4GL
- Stores information in Ingres or Informix
- Full X-windows graphical interface
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DESCRIPTION
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The modularity of the CASE workbenches offers you the ability to
automate each development phase depending on your organization's
requirements. Westmount's CASE products thus provide a growth
path to a truly automated, integrated CASE development environ-
ment. Since the end of 1988 Westmount offers three major CASE
product lines:
- ISEE/CASE
- RTEE/CASE
- TSEE/CASE
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ISEE/CASE
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ISEE/CASE is an integrated software development environment which
supports the analysis, design, implementation, testing and
maintenance of information systems. The generic version can gen-
erate code for any Ansi SQL-based RDBMS. A special version of
ISEE/CASE is ISEE/CASE-Ingres, which specializes in using the 4GL
code generation for this well known RDBMS. ISEE/CASE fully sup-
ports Yourdon/DeMarco, Jackson, Constantine and Chen Structured
Analysis/Structured Design (SA/SD) methods. It includes:
- ISEE/CASE-Analyst
The Analyst workbench offers all the tools needed in the Analysis
phase of the development of an information system, including:
+ Data Flow Editor
+ Data Structure Editor
+ Entity Relationship Editor
- ISEE/CASE-Designer
The Designer workbench offers all the tools needed in the Design
phase of the development of an information system, including:
+ Structure Chart Editor
+ Entity Relationship Editor
+ Data Structure Editor
+ State Transition Editor
- ISEE/CASE-Ingres-Programmer
The ISEE/CASE-Ingres-Programmer environment establishes complete
integration between Westmount's graphical Design workbench and
the full INGRES fourth generation application development en-
vironment. Using the ISEE/INGRES-Programmer together with INGRES
database networking facilities, integrated system development is
possible in a multi-user, distributed environment.
Each of these workbenches may be used as a stand-alone environ-
ment, dealing only with a single stage of the development process
or together as one integrated environment.
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TSEE/CASE
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TSEE/CASE is an integrated software development environment which
supports the analysis, design, implementation, testing and
maintenance of technical systems, like CAD/CAM systems, operating
system software and various tools. This type of development pro-
cess, which may incorporate aspects also found in real-time sys-
tems, requires special development methods and techniques. In
the TSEE/CASE family there are three workbenches:
- TSEE/CASE-Analyst
The TSEE/Analyst workbench offers a comprehensive set of in-
tegrated tools necessary for the structured analysis of technical
systems applications. For building the Essential Model the fol-
lowing editors are available:
+ Control Flow Editor
+ Data Structure Editor
+ Entity Relationship Editor
+ State Transition Editor
- TSEE/CASE-Designer
The TSEE/CASE-Designer workbench offers a comprehensive set of
integrated tools necessary for the structured design of technical
systems applications. For building the Implementation Model the
following editors are available:
+ Data Structure Editor
+ Structure Chart Editor
+ Entity relationship Editor
- TSEE/CASE-Programmer
TSEE/CASE-Programmer provides a flexible programming support en-
vironment which allows engineers to develop high-quality, multi-
tasking technical applications. TSEE/CASE-Programmer allows the
integration of cross-development tools and debuggers.
Each of these workbenches may be used as a stand-alone environ-
ment, dealing only with a single stage of the development process
or together as one integrated environment.
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RTEE/CASE
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RTEE/CASE is an integrated software development environment which
supports the analysis, design, implementation, testing and
maintenance of real-time embedded systems. RTEE/CASE is the first
CASE tool which supports a COMPLETE Ward/Mellor implementation.
In the RTEE/CASE family there are four workbenches:
- RTEE/CASE-Analyst
The RTEE/Analyst workbench offers a comprehensive set of in-
tegrated tools necessary for the structured analysis of real-time
systems applications. For building the Essential Model the fol-
lowing editors are available:
+ Control Flow Editor
+ Data Structure Editor
+ Entity Relationship Editor
+ State Transition Editor
- RTEE/CASE-Designer
The RTEE/CASE-Designer workbench offers a comprehensive set of
integrated tools necessary for the structured design of real-time
systems applications. For building the Implementation Model the
following editors are available:
+ Data Structure Editor
+ Structure Chart Editor
+ Entity relationship Editor
- RTEE/CASE-Programmer
RTEE/CASE-Programmer provides a flexible programming support en-
vironment which allows engineers to develop high-quality, multi-
tasking real-time applications. RTEE/CASE-Programmer allows the
integration of cross-development tools such as system builders,
debuggers and system monitors as well as tools for downloading
and generation of embedded systems.
- RTEE/CASE-VRTX-Programmer
RTEE/CASE-VRTX-Programmer provides a flexible programming support
environment which allows engineers to develop high-quality, mul-
titasking real-time applications dedicated to Ready System's
VRTX32. RTEE/CASE-VRTX-Programmer consists of a integerated sys-
tem builder (RTbuild), symbolic multi-tasking debugger (RTtask),
system monitor (RTsystem) and virtual terminal connection (RTcon-
nect), all dedicated to VRTX32.
Each of these workbenches may be used as a stand-alone environ-
ment, dealing only with a single stage of the development process
or together as one integrated environment.
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The Project Database
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Integration of the workbenches is achieved by a common Project
Database where all development information on a particular appli-
cation is collected. This means that the information gathered in
the analysis stage is directly available to the subsequent stages
in the software development lifecycle. The Project Database
(PDB) is built upon a standard relational database management
system (Ingres). The PDB allows the integration of the work-
benches and of the project-related information. The PDB is a
single reference point where all information about a project is
gathered. Information is only recorded once, ensuring the con-
sistency and completeness of the data in the PDB.
Users are always working with consistent and up-to-date informa-
tion which saves time and increases their productivity. The
analysis information gathered with the Analyst is directly avail-
able for use with the Designer and the Programmer tools. Eventu-
ally, the data in the PDB will contain a complete and consistent
description of the required application. All the editors contain
commands for storing diagrams and related data for the PDB and
for retrieving definitions of the identifiers related to objects.
From the editors updates can be made of the PDB as well as view-
ing the contents of the PDB.
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The Desk
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The desk is a window in which projects and systems will be
displayed. The information which is displayed comes from cor-
porate database and project database. Desk is the starting point
for all development activities on a particular project. The user
first selects a project to work on before activating one of the
workbenches.
At the Desk level projects and systems within projects are creat-
ed and defined. Project-related organisational activities can be
executed by the responsible Project Manager on three levels: Cor-
porate, Project and User. For example, the project manager can
restrict the permission to execute activities on a certain level
of organisation to specific users for security purposes.
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Multi-user ability
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The CASE workbenches are most likely used by project teams con-
sisting of multiple members. When working in project teams, data
produced by one developer may be of importance for other team
members. Very often a developer will want to use already exist-
ing information sometimes even from sources outside the project.
An essential requirement therefore is that members of a project
team can at all times share all development information. The CASE
workbenches allow handling of larger projects. Both the Project
Database and the Corporate Database can be implemented on the da-
tabase server of a network whereas the workbenches are running on
graphical workstations.
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The Graphical Editors
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All the graphical editors support a stage of the development pro-
cess which results in a set of diagrams. The user interfaces of
the graphical editors provide a consistent and uniform look-and-
feel, making them easy to use and helping to shorten learning
time. As each editor uses a separate window, users may work
simultaneously on the different type of editors. In this way dif-
ferent aspects of a project can be displayed side by side on the
screen. The graphical editors offer the possibility to draw and
modify diagrams, to insert and change text and to check the
resulting models for consistency and syntactical correctness.
Anyone who is interested in more information on Westmount's CASE
products can contact the corresponding product manager:
Onno Schipperus (hp4nl!wmt!onsc) for ISEE/CASE or
Sandor Nieuwenhuijs (hp4nl!wmt!sani) for RTEE/CASE and TSEE/CASE
or contact us via normal mail:
Westmount Technology B.V.
attn. O. Schipperus/S. Nieuwenhuijs
Poortweg 8
2612 PA DELFT
The Netherlands
telephone: INTL. (31) 15610815
fax : INTL. (31) 15565701
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Sandor Nieuwenhuijs | E-mail: sani@wmt.uucp
Westmount Technology B.V. | Phone: +31 15 610815
Poortweg 8, 2612 PA Delft | Fax: +31 15 565701
The Netherlands |----------------------------