CASE support for collaborative modelling: re-engineering conceptual modelling techniques to exploit the potential of CASE tools

To date, CASE tools have generally been built around pre-CASE analysis and design techniques. The paper argues that more benefit would be obtained if analysis and design techniques were `re-engineered' so as to make the best use of the capabilities offered by CASE tools. Techniques such as entity-relationship modelling and data flow diagrams have successfully been transferred to the CASE environment, with significant administrative and clerical benefits. However, these techniques were not necessarily designed with automation in mind, and their CASE implementations have failed to adequately address important aspects of the modelling process, such as communication, collaboration, and the application of past experience. Ways in which these aspects can be supported pro-actively by CASE tools are given, using examples from a prototype CASE tool