In pararel with NDT, NDT-Tool was developed. NDT-Tool is a tool case that covers completely the life cycle of NDT. It lets to apply techniques used in NDT and the automatic generation of NDT results. The most relevant characteristics of NDT-Tool are:
1- It covers the complete life cycle of NDT. It covers the requirements and the analysis phase of NDT.
2- It offers an suitable support to complete patterns and to use NDT artifacts.
3- It manages errors and inconsistencies in the use of NDT, its transformations or its techniques.
4- Systematic processes for basic model generation are automatic in NDT-Tool.
5- NDT results, the requirements and the analysis document and abstract prototypes are generated automatically.
6- It manages several projects concurrently.
7- It manages several development teams working concurrently.
2- It offers an suitable support to complete patterns and to use NDT artifacts.
3- It manages errors and inconsistencies in the use of NDT, its transformations or its techniques.
4- Systematic processes for basic model generation are automatic in NDT-Tool.
5- NDT results, the requirements and the analysis document and abstract prototypes are generated automatically.
6- It manages several projects concurrently.
7- It manages several development teams working concurrently.
NDT-Tool adds important advantages to NDT and it follows the actual line of other methodological approaches that are included tool cases for supporting their life cycle, like Argo UWE or WebRatio.
NDT-Tool is only available in Spanish. Its first version was developed with Visual Basic and Access but, later it was migrated to MySQL and Java with the special collaboration of some companies like Everis and Telvent.
In the next papers, more information about NDT-Tool can be obtained:
M.J. Escalona, J. Torres, M. Mejías, A.M. Reina
NDT-Tool: A CASE Tool to deal with Requirements in Web Information Systems
Proceeding of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2003). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2722). ISSN: 0302-9743 pp. 212-213. Ed. Springer Verlag oviedo, Spain. July, 2003.
M.J. Escalona, M. Mejías, J. Torres
Developing System with NDT & NDT-Tool
Proceeding of the 13th International Conference on Information System Development (ISD'2004).ISBN: 9986-05-762-0.pp. 149-159. Vilnius, Lithuania. September, 2004.
M.J. Escalona, G. Aragón
NDT-Tool. A Model-Driven tool to deal with Web Requirements
Academic Posters and Demos. ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Models 2008). Nashville, TN. September, 2007.
NDT-Tool: A CASE Tool to deal with Requirements in Web Information Systems
Proceeding of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2003). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2722). ISSN: 0302-9743 pp. 212-213. Ed. Springer Verlag oviedo, Spain. July, 2003.
M.J. Escalona, M. Mejías, J. Torres
Developing System with NDT & NDT-Tool
Proceeding of the 13th International Conference on Information System Development (ISD'2004).ISBN: 9986-05-762-0.pp. 149-159. Vilnius, Lithuania. September, 2004.
M.J. Escalona, G. Aragón
NDT-Tool. A Model-Driven tool to deal with Web Requirements
Academic Posters and Demos. ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Models 2008). Nashville, TN. September, 2007.
All the information about how NDT-Tool is related with NDT is available in the thesis (only in Spanish):
M.J. Escalona
Modelos y técnicas para la especificación y el análisis de la Navegación en Sistemas Software
Ph. European Thesis. Department of Computer Languages and Systems. University of Seville. Seville, Spain. October, 2004.
Modelos y técnicas para la especificación y el análisis de la Navegación en Sistemas Software
Ph. European Thesis. Department of Computer Languages and Systems. University of Seville. Seville, Spain. October, 2004.
For the actual version of NDT-Tool there is an user manual, only in Spanish.
IWT2 (2008) - Department of Computer Languages and Systems - University of Sevilla