From: franke@llnl.gov (Norman Franke, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CASE tools
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:14:38 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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In article <semOdye00XQU8E11pU@andrew.cmu.edu> Jason Andrew Barshay,
jb6o+@andrew.cmu.edu writes:
>I am interested in finding any information on CASE tools for the
>Macintosh.  If you know of any products, have experience with them, have
>the address of vendors, or anything else, I would appreciate the
>information you could give me.  Please send your repsonses (or at least
>CC) them to this account.

I posted a similar question here are the responses I got:

But first, we "selected" TurboCASE from Struct Soft, Inc.

206-644-9834

However, TurboCASE is probably the worst piece of software I have ever
seen for the Mac. It has numerous bugs, and the WORST interface known
to MacMan. But, it's also the least expensive. Also, the manual is
worthless and seems to be written for a different version of the 
software.

(The US Number for DEFT, is 617-238-6100, and I spoke with John Baron for
an evaluation copy.)

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 11:12:56 PDT
From: hoyt@godzilla.quotron.COM (Bob Hoyt)
Subject: RE: CASE Software
To: franke@llnl.GOV
Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.

You ought to at least look at Deft, a CASE tool which we have had here at
Quotron Systems for a couple of years.  It does Data Flow Diagrams, Entity
Relationship Diagrams, Program Structure Diagram, and from these will
create
forms and/or reports.  It keeps a data base of everything that you enter,
so even misspellings can be caught.

When we first considered it, they had a free demo which showed off most of
their features.  For that, or more specific information, you can contact
them at:

	DEFT			(Home Office)
	Suite 111, 557 Dixon Rd.
	Toronto (Rexdale), Ontario
	M9W 1H7, Canada
	Sales:	(416) 249-2246
	FAX:	(416) 243-5043

(They have a West Coast office, but I believe that my address for that is
out of date.  Let me know if you need me to look it up.

As usual, it's disclaimer time.  These statements represent my opinion
only,
not that of Quotron Systems, Inc., its management, etc., etc.

Good luck,

Bob Hoyt
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 12:26:10 MST
From: Duke_Beattie@chdqm1.sps.mot.COM (Duke Beattie)
Subject: RE: CASE Software
To: franke@llnl.GOV
Organization: Motorola ASIC

You might try contacting Excel Software at:
                             PO Box 1414
                             Marshalltown, Iowa 50158
                             (515) 752-5359
They have pretty good Analysis and Design programs.

Duke

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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 92 14:37:01 -0500
From: tonyrich@cs.wisc.EDU (Anthony Rich)
Subject: RE: CASE Software
To: franke@llnl.GOV
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

Hi, Norman.  You write:

I'm teaching a SE class here at UW-Eau Claire this semester.  In the
Instructor's Guide to the textbook "Software Engineering with Student
Project Guidance" by Barbee Teasley Mynatt (Prentice-Hall) is a list of
available CASE tools for lots of platforms.  The book is copyright 1990,
so
this info may be out of date.  No platform is specified for some of the
software listed; here are the ones that it says will run on the Mac.
I haven't used any of them.

  -- Tony



Design/2.0
Meta Software Corp.
150 Cambridge Park Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
(800)227-4106
(617)576-6920

A drawing package that facilitates the manipulation of text and
graphics components.  System designs, org charts, flowcharts,
and presentation graphics can be created.  Allows the user 
connect objects; connected objects are automatically rebuilt
when a diagram is edited.


MacBubbles
StarSys, Inc.
11113 Norles Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20902
(301)946-0522

A dataflow diagram editor for the Mac.


Powertools (formerly Prism)
Iconix Software Engineering
1037 Third Street
Suite 105
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(213)458-0092

A variety of tools, including Free-Flow (a dataflow diagram editor
with mini-specifications), FastTask (for real-time software development),
PowerPDL (a pseudocode processor that generates formatted documentation),
and SmartChart (a structure chart generator).

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