Four kinds of power tools help make software development faster, cheaper and of higher quality:
1. Non-procedural languages allow developers to program by expressing
the result that they want, rather than by detailing the steps to achieve
it.
2. Prototyping tools permit iterative development, in which an application
prototype is successively tested and refined.
3. CASE tools allow plans, models, and designs to be expressed graphically.
4. Code generators generate source code from high-level constructs.
Integrated CASE toolsets, which link these four capabilities in one facility, are the foundation of rapid development.
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