TuringTool: a user interface to aid in the software maintenance task

Author

Cordy, James R. ; Eliot, Nicholas L. ; Robertson, Michael G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

1990

fDate

3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

294

Lastpage

301

Abstract

TuringTool is a source program viewing and editing system specifically designed to support the software maintenance task. TuringTool bases all of its views of the program on a single comprehensive viewing paradigm borrowed from program development environments: source text elision. It is shown how this paradigm can be used to represent several kinds of views appropriate to the maintenance of large source programs, including structural views and nonstructural views appropriate to the maintenance task and how it can be extended to allow dynamic creation of complex programmer-specified views using simple set theoretic operators to combine the effects of several views into one. The system exploits the highly structured nature of the Turing programming language to allow seamless viewing of programs consisting of many separately compiled source modules as one uniform source

Keywords

high level languages; programming environments; software engineering; user interfaces; Turing programming language; TuringTool; complex programmer-specified views; dynamic creation; editing system; large source programs; nonstructural views; program development environments; seamless viewing; separately compiled source modules; simple set theoretic operators; single comprehensive viewing paradigm; software maintenance task; source program; source text elision; structural views; uniform source; user interface; Computer languages; Councils; Knowledge based systems; Large screen displays; Programming environments; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Synthesizers; Tree graphs; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.48937

Filename

48937