CASE & Design Tools

Diagramming Tools

Online Tools:

• Google Chart (often used inside Google Docs)
  • Good for simple flow charts etc...
• Lucid Chart
  • Commercial software, but restricted free mode available for students
• Draw.io: https://www.draw.io/
  • Free & Open source (backend)
  • A little more limited than LucidChart but extensible with custom SVG elements

MS Visio

GUI Design Tools

The recommended GUI designer is Balsamiq Mockups. This can be used to create interactive mockups and can be exported to make. Click here for license information.

Lucid Charts and Draw.io are also good at making wireframes and storyboards.

Hand-drawn designs are also a good idea!

Industry Standards

• Adobe XD
• Sketch

Data Dictionaries

Any software that can produce a table!

Can be automatically produced by some RAD software such as MS Access

Code Generation and Completion

Netbeans has a good drag-and-drop GUI designer for Java Swing. This is Code Generation.

Code completion, more advanced versions like IntelliSense