Design tools - Definition - Delivering the System

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• Nirja Shah   -Posted on 20 Oct 15
  Documentation Tools
  - Documentation in a software project starts prior to the software process, goes throughout all phases of SDLC and after the completion of the project.
  - These tools generate documents for technical users and end users.
  - Technical users are mostly in-house professionals of the development team who refer to system manual, reference manual, training manual, installation manuals etc.
  - The end user documents describe the functioning and how-to of the system such as user manual.
  - For example, Doxygen, DrExplain, Adobe RoboHelp for documentation.
  
  Analysis Tools
  - These tools help to gather requirements, automatically check for any inconsistency, inaccuracy in the diagrams, data redundancies or erroneous omissions.
  - For example, Accept 360, Accompa, CaseComplete for requirement analysis, Visible Analyst for total analysis.
  
  Design Tools
  - These tools help software designers to design the block structure of the software, which may further be broken down in smaller modules using refinement techniques.
  - These tools provides detailing of each module and interconnections among modules.
  - For example, Animated Software Design
  
  Configuration Management Tools
  - An instance of software is released under one version. Configuration Management tools deal with –
  1. Version and revision management
  2. Baseline configuration management
  3. Change control management
  
  - CASE tools help in this by automatic tracking, version management and release management. For example, Fossil, Git, Accu REV.

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