Automatic Documentation Methodologies for Software Maintenance

Abstract

Work on this project led to some interesting conclusions. The first of these was the determination that none of the methodologies in use today is really optimal in its utility to maintenance programmers. While NS Diagrams and others are familiar to programmers and to many knowledgeable users, the optimal tool would provide a new methodology that provided graphics, text, detail, overview, static structure, and dynamic dataflow all in a visually-appealing, user-friendly way. Keywords: Software maintenance, Maintenance programmers, Programmers, Program languages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 1989
Accession Number
ADA204752

Entities

People

  • A. J. Fine
  • A. L. Gilbert
  • L. D. Landis
  • P. M. Hyland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Automatic
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Environment
  • Grammars
  • Graphics
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Maintenance
  • Military Research
  • Programming Languages
  • Scientists
  • User Friendly

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design