Use of methods and CASE-tools in Norway: Results from a survey

Abstract

Results on use of methodology and CASE-tools from a survey investigation performed in Norwegian organizations are presented. The results are based on responses from 52 Norwegian organizations on a survey investigation on development and maintenance.Although there appears to be a trend towards the use of more packaged solutions, the investigation indicates a larger proportions of application systems being developed as customized systems in larger organizations. The presence of a comprehensive development and maintenance methodology and the use of CASE-tools are also more prominent in larger organizations. Larger organizations also use statistically significant less of their effotl on functional maintenance. Even though, the impact of CASE-tools on the information systems portfolios of Norwegian organizations are not yet large, and improvements in functional maintenance can not be attributed to the ase of CASE. A notably different perception on the benefit of CASE-technology for productivity was observed between users and non-users of CASE, but the difference was not found to be statistically significant.

A longitudinal study of development and maintenance in Norway: Report from the 2003 investigation

“…Reasons for barriers for applications of such tools have been investigated in more detail in many works both by us and others (see e.g. [7,17,33]), but was not the main focus in this investigation.…”

“…5. Question on the application portfolio and user population (questions [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. These questions are taken from [31].…”

A longitudinal study of development and maintenance

“…When comparing with the American studies, we should be even more cautious in the comparison, given potential cultural differences. We note though that when these comparisons where first provided [18][19][20], the results were well received by the software maintenance community.…”