ADAM CASE. Using upper CASE tools in Software Engineering Laboratory.

In general, CASE tools are a fundamental support to improve and automate the software development process in every stage of the project life cycle. From this point of view, it seems necessary that the future software engineers should be trained in the appropriate techniques to build software applications, but they must also take the opportunity to apply these techniques with the help of automated tools. However, these tools are not always available for teaching purposes, because of two reasons: the high cost of the tools licences and the enormous diversity in this area. In this article, ADAM CASE is presented. It is an upper CASE tool developed at the Computer Science and Automatics Department of the University of Salamanca. The main aim of the work is to solve the existing lack of CASE tools in Software Engineering laboratory course within technical studies of Computer Science in this University.