Reaffirmed 2020

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO/IEC 14102 : 2008 'Information technology - Guideline for the evaluation and selection of CASE tools' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) jointlywas adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of the Software and Systems Engineering Sectional Committee and approval of the Electronics and Information Technology Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1999 and was identical to ISO/IEC 14102 : 1995. This revision is being published to align it with the latest version of lSO/lEC 14102 : 2008.

The text of ISO/IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appear referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.