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Requirements and design of DesignVision and object-oriented graphical interface to an intelligent software design assistant

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CHI '92: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/142750.142908

Published: 01 June 1992 Publication History

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Key findings from empirical studies—early design is opportunistic; critical role of pictures in design conception; impact of various cognitive limitations—have very effectively determined requirements and design for a set of tools to support early design. Key design features of the tools include respectively: (1) The (simultaneous) display of any software modules at arbitrary levels of abstraction and from any subsystems. The unrestricted, smooth navigation between these software modules. (2) Multiple design notations—pictorial and symbolic— cross-referenced, editable, and maintained consistent across all views. Integrated views of control flow, data flow, and functional decomposition. (3) Automatic layout at arbitrary levels of nesting. Visual display of execution paths in the solution. Automatic completeness and consistency check. Automatic visual indication and listing of modules with constraint violations.

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Requirements and design of DesignVision and object-oriented graphical interface to an intelligent software design assistant
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Modules / packages

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DOI:10.1145/142750

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