BUILD: A Tool for Maintaining Consistency in Modular Systems.

Abstract

BUILD is a tool for keeping modular system in a consistent state by managing the construction tasks (e.g. compilation, linking etc.) associated with such systems. It employs a user supplied system model and a procedural description of a task to be performed in order to perform the task. This differs from existing tools which do not explicitly separate knowledge about systems from knowledge about how systems are manipulated. Build provides a static framework for modeling systems and handling construction requests that makes use of programming environment specific definitions. By altering the set of definitions, BUILD can be extended to work with new programming environments and to perform new tasks. Keywords: High level languages; BUILD Computer program; C programming language; Systems engineering. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA162744

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Robbins

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • C Programming Language
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Grammars
  • High Level Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Object Code
  • Programming Languages
  • Shell Scripts
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design