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   The acronym CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering.

   A CASE product is used to build an application without having to manually
   enter the code that will implement its functionalities, but just by
   describing the application's requirements, leaving it up to the computer
   to translate these requirements into true programs.

   CASE products started to enter into the market in the beginning of the
   80's, when the need to enhance and automate the development of large size
   software projects was increasing.

   Just as the development cycle of a project is made up of different phases,
   there are CASE instruments that support each one of these development
   phases.

   Upper CASE products are those used for supporting and automating the
   analysis process of the application. Generally, they are made up of one or
   more graphical editors that allow to describe the structure of the
   application through a group of diagrams (data flow diagrams,
   entity-relation diagrams, state-transition diagrams, etc.) and a series of
   tools that allow to verify the correctness and the consistency of the
   information inserted. In addition, output can be obtained of the
   description of the applications that can be given to the programmers who
   will implement it.

   Lower CASE products are used to automate the planning phase and the
   implementation of the application. Their purpose is to avoid the manual
   writing of code for the most part of the application, allowing to obtain
   professional applications in little time, saving development time and
   costs. The advantages of this type of products can be summarised as:

     . Savings in development time and costs

     . Generation of Error-Free code

     . Construction of application prototypes that are developed in
       a small amount of time.

   dBsee 4 is Lower CASE product that allows to generate applications in
   CA-Clipper, saving up to 90% in costs in respect to traditional
   development tools. The applications developed with dBsee 4 are also
   taken care of from the graphical and functional view, and the application
   developer can use the creativity to specify "what" has to be done while it
   will be up to dBsee 4 to know "how" everything is to be written in
   CA-Clipper.

   The code generated by dBsee 4 can be accessed by programmers who can
   freely modify the code in order to make customisations or manually add
   functionalities. Each modification made is recognised by dBsee 4 and
   such modifications will be included in every successive generation.