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Yes, it did. In fact, CASE tools were going to be all the rage: computer-aided software engineering. One of them was METHOD/1 from Andersen Consulting (now Acc
by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Yes, it did. In fact, CASE tools were going to be all the rage: computer-aided software engineering.
One of them was METHOD/1 from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). If you wanted to create a variable to hold, for example, a part number... you'd create an entry in the CASE tool for it and from then on, everyone was supposed to use that one. It would have validation rules, like 30 characters, alphanumeric, whatever.
The CASE tool would do code generation for screens and forms and whatnot. And.... that's about as much as I remember at the moment.
- ztjio 7y agoCASE tools are widely used today, but, you will see them scoped very specifically the databases in systems where everything is built around the massive pillar of a major db implementation. I worked for a company for little while that made extremely effective use of this approach allowing hundreds of devs to effectively work simultaneously on a single monolithic system. It was shocking. I was so impressed. I've still never seen any software organization so... organized. And they owed it largely to the protocols revolving around their use of a CASE tool.