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A Database-Based and Web-Based Meta-CASE System

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Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

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Each Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) system provides support to a software process or specific tasks or activities that are part of a software process. Each meta-CASE system allows us to create new CASE systems. The creators of a new CASE system have to specify abstract syntax of the language that is used in the system and functionality as well as non-functional properties of the new system. Many meta-CASE systems record their data directly in files. In this paper, we introduce a meta-CASE system, the enabling technology of which is an object-relational database system (ORDBMS). The system allows users to manage specifications of languages and create models by using these languages. The system has web-based and form-based user interface. We have created a proof-of-concept prototype of the system by using PostgreSQL ORDBMS and PHP scripting language.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Tallinn University of Technology, Raja 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Erki Eessaar & Rünno Sgirka

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    Khaled Elleithy

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Eessaar, E., Sgirka, R. (2010). A Database-Based and Web-Based Meta-CASE System. In: Elleithy, K. (eds) Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_65

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