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A program design language based software maintenance tool
Author(s) -
Ince D. C.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380150606
Subject(s) - computer science , software engineering , software maintenance , programming language , software , software design , software construction , software development
Program design languages are an increasingly important method of expressing the detailed design of a software system. Such languages can be modelled using a data structure known as a semantic net. This paper describes a maintenance tool for program design languages based on such a data structure. The tool allows the user to interrogate a semantic net using an interactive procedural language in order to derive information necessary for software maintenance. The technique upon which this tool is based is applicable to the maintenance of activities throughout the software lifecycle.