low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low) (05/10/89)
It seems that Ready Systems' CARDtools has become the de facto
standard CASE tool for real-time embedded system and software design
at my company. I have two questions for anyone who has used this package:
1. What design method does it support?
Possible answers I've come up with are
a) Hatley, sort of
b) Ward-Mellor, sort of
c) Ready Systems' own
d) anyone/everyone's (it's just a tool box)
TFM doesn't say what method is supported; neither does is have
any references listed that would give it away. When I read TFMs
I get the feeling that the answer is d), but this is never stated.
When I ask people here what method they use with CARDtools they say,
"Well, just CARDtools, right?" A recent article in Computer Design
magazine just said CARDtools supports Ward-Mellor, without really
saying how.
2. (really a general CASE question) Is there any size of project for
which use of tools like CARDtools is uneconomical?
Followups to comp.realtime please.
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Rick Low
MEL Defence Systems Limited, Ottawa, Canada
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