CAME : The First Step to Automated Method Engineering

Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) is a kind of computerized tool for supporting the processes to build project-specific methods for information system development. One of the easiest ways to build them is to adopt reuse technique. In this technique, we have a kind of database system, called method base, which stores reusable method portions, and assemble them into a project-specific method. Automating this assembly process by using CAME tool is the first step to automated method engineering, i.e. automated supporting techniques to build situational methods. This paper demonstrates a CAME tool supporting assembly based method engineering process. In particular, we present two computerized tools; one is a method editor for inputting and editing meta models, and the other one is a generator of diagrams editors for inputting and editing the diagrams that express the model of a system.