JP3016109B2 - Program document maintenance device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a program document maintenance device, and more particularly, to a program which facilitates a program document maintenance operation by supporting an operation of creating information of a higher concept than information of a lower concept of a program. Document maintenance device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in program maintenance,
It is necessary to accurately and easily create program information of a higher concept used for program maintenance based on program information of a lower concept in order to make program maintenance accurate and easy.

Conventionally, when program information of a lower concept created based on the program information created at the time of developing a new program is changed, a corresponding portion on the program information of the upper concept is manually searched and corrected. Had to be done. However, under the current situation with huge resources and limited man-hours, there is no time to go back and correct the program information of the superordinate concept, and the content between the program information of the superordinate concept and the program information of the subordinate concept There is a problem that a large number of man-hours are required for program maintenance because program information of a higher concept cannot be used for program maintenance.

To solve this problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
No. 98732 proposes a “software maintenance method”. In this method, when a software change request is issued, either the design document information of the software to be changed stored in the design document information storage unit or the source code of the software to be changed stored in the source code storage unit Then, the remaining source code or design document information is changed to the same content using the source code generation unit or the design document information generation unit.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-237726 proposes an "automatic generation system for software specifications". In this system, a plurality of detailed specifications or programs or JCL (Job Control Statement: Job
Control Language) and other software products are analyzed and the specification information that should be included in the higher-level specifications and the specification information that is commonly included in multiple specifications among the extracted information are integrated, and the extracted information that is not integrated , And prepares the specification information of the upper specification, and converts the specification information into the format of the higher specification.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-19925 proposes a "document generation method". In this method, a processing mode including a program analysis process for generating a document and addition / replacement / deletion processing of analysis data and a processing target are specified, and a source program identification name storage device is specified as a processing target by a processing specifying device. The source program storage device stores a plurality of source programs each including a set of a source program identifier and a source text.

However, any of the above-mentioned proposed methods generates program information of a superordinate concept having Japanese information of a content that is always 100% satisfactory as a Japanese language specification, or generates program information of a superordinate concept from program information of a subordinate concept. Equipped with a device that provides a support environment for manual correction of Japanese information for the higher-level program information that has been processed, processes the corrections, and automatically reflects the changed Japanese information until the next generation There is no example that has a function to make it work.

[0008]

In the conventional method of manually modifying the program information of the high-level concept, a great deal of man-hour is required for searching and correcting the portion to be corrected. There is a problem that the contents of the program information of the superordinate concept and the program information of the subordinate concept do not match each other without being corrected.

Also, in a system having only a function of supporting creation of high-level concept program information from low-level concept program information, information having a content satisfying 100% is not always automatically generated. Furthermore, unless the contents corrected manually are reflected in the automatically generated information at the time of the next and subsequent generations, the same manual correction work is required again at the time of the next and subsequent generations, and as a result, man-hours are not reduced.

[0010] Therefore, a main object of the present invention is to provide a program document maintenance apparatus capable of accurately and easily creating and maintaining a program document used for program maintenance, and consequently making program maintenance accurate and easy. It is to be.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a program document maintenance apparatus for supporting the creation of a program document and for maintaining the program document, the program information storing information relating to the design and development of the program. Storage means; and program information analysis means for analyzing program information stored in the program information storage means and extracting information necessary for generating program information of a higher concept than the analyzed program information. Upper-level program information generating means for generating program information of a higher concept from the lower-level program information, program information display means for providing a display environment of program information stored in the program information storage means and a correction work support environment for display contents, and a program Stored in the information storage means The output of the program information output means for outputting the program information, the program information stored in the program information storage means to the program information output means,
Program information input / output control means for controlling the display on the program information display means and the storage of program information corrected to the contents displayed on the program information display means in the program information storage means. You.

[0012]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. When one of program design, development information, program source, and program information of a development product such as JCL stored in the program information storage device 1 is designated as lower concept program information, the program information is analyzed by the program information analysis device 2. Based on the analysis result, the higher-level concept program information generating device 3 generates higher-level concept program information than the program information analyzed by the program information analysis device 2, and the generated higher-level concept program information is also stored in the program information storage. It is stored in the device 1.

The program information stored in the program information storage device 1 can be output to the program information output device 5 or displayed on the program information display device 4 using the program information input / output control device 6. The program information displayed on the program information display device 4 can be manually corrected, and the contents of the correction and the corrected portion are reflected on the generated contents at the time of the next and subsequent generations. To save, the program information input / output control device 6 is again used to store and manage the program information in the program information storage device 1.

When the higher-level concept program information generating device 3 next generates the higher-level concept program information, the lower-level concept program information contains the program information storage device 1.
If there is no change in the location corresponding to the manual modification to the previous generation content managed in the above, the manually modified content at the previous generation managed is automatically reflected in the corresponding content generation content .

Therefore, according to the present invention, the task of creating the program information of the superordinate concept with respect to the changed program information of the subordinate concept is facilitated, and a manual work support environment for the automatically generated program information of the superordinate concept is provided. By providing the device, more accurate high-level concept program information can be obtained, and furthermore, the content of the manual correction is reflected in the generation content at the time of creating the next-level high-level concept program information, so that the The creation of the high-level concept program information becomes easier, and the program document maintenance can be performed accurately and easily. As a result, the program document maintenance becomes accurate and easy.

[0016]

FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are schematic block diagrams showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 shows an example of a relationship between program information stored in a program information storage device. FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, also in this embodiment, the program information storage device 1, the program information analysis device 2, the upper program information generation device 3, the program information display It includes a device 4, a program information output device 5, and a program information input / output control device 6. The program information storage device 1 stores various pieces of program information created during the design and development of programs, and development products such as program sources and JCL in association with higher-level concepts and lower-level concepts. In the example shown in FIG. 6, a basic design document, a detailed design document, a program specification document, and a program source are stored in a relation of a superordinate concept-subordinate concept. In addition, program information that has been manually corrected by the program information display device 4 is stored in a form in which the correction information (correction location and correction content) is also added.

When one of the program information stored in the program information storage device 1 is designated, the program information analysis device 2 obtains the designated program information from the program information storage device 1 and analyzes the program information. Extracts information required for generation. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 2, a program source is designated and analyzed as analysis target program information, and information necessary for generating a program specification, which is high-level concept program information, is extracted. In the example shown in FIG. 5, the JCL is instructed and analyzed as the analysis target program information, and information necessary for generating a job flow, which is high-level concept program information, is extracted.

The high-level concept program information generation device 3 associates the program information in the program information storage device 1 with a higher level concept than the program information analyzed by the program information analysis device 2 based on the information analyzed and extracted by the program information analysis device 2. The generated program information is generated as higher-level concept program information. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 2, a program specification, which is information on higher-level concept program, is generated from a program source analysis result. Also,
In FIG. 5, a job flow, which is higher-level concept program information, is generated from the JCL analysis result. The high-level concept program information generation device 3 stores the generated program information in the program information storage device 1.

Further, the generation of the high-level concept program information is performed in a form reflecting the correction information by the program information display device 4. That is, if the portion corresponding to the modification to the high-level concept program information generated up to the previous time is not changed in the low-level concept program information, the content of the correction to the high-level concept program information up to the previous time is reused.

For example, after the detailed design document is modified as shown in FIG. 3 and the program source is changed, if a program specification and a detailed design document are generated again based on the program source, the detailed Since the portion corresponding to the modification in the design document is not changed in the program source, a detailed design document as shown in FIG. 4 is obtained without being newly generated.

The program information input / output control device 6 performs control for displaying the program information stored in the program information storage device 1 on the program information display device 4 and control for outputting the program information to the program information output device 5. In addition, the program information storage device 1 displays the correction information for the program information on the correction work support environment of the program information display device 4 together with the program information displaying the correction information.
To be stored.

The program information display device 4 displays the program information specified by the program information input / output control device 6 and provides a correction work support environment for the displayed program information.
Outputs the program information specified by the program information input / output control device 6.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, information related to the design and development of a program is stored in the program information storage means, the stored program is analyzed, and the analyzed program information is stored. Extracting information necessary for generating program information of a higher concept than the above, and displaying the program information stored in the program information storage means by the program information display means,
Since a correction work support environment for the displayed contents is provided and the program information stored in the program information storage means is output, the creation and maintenance of a program document used for program maintenance can be performed accurately and easily. As a result, program maintenance becomes accurate and easy.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, showing a state in which a program specification, which is program information of a higher concept thereof, is generated from a program source analysis result.

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, showing a state in which a correction is generated for a detailed design document.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, showing a state in which a corrected detailed design document is output.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, showing a state where information necessary for generating a job flow is extracted.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship between program information stored in a program information storage device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 program information storage device 2 program information analysis device 3 high-level concept program information generation device 4 program information display device 5 program information output device 6 program information input / output control device

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-2-159620 (JP, A) JP-A-1-237726 (JP, A) JP-A-4-246726 (JP, A) JP-A-62-162 197826 (JP, A) “Information Processing Society of Japan Research Report”, Vol. 4 (1993-1-19) (93-IS-42-8) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 9/06

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A program document maintenance device for supporting creation of a program document and maintaining the program document, comprising: program information storage means for storing information relating to design and development of a program; A program information analysis unit that analyzes the program information stored in the storage unit and extracts information necessary for generating program information of a higher concept than the analyzed program information; High-level program generation means for generating high-level concept program information based on the analyzed information; display of program information stored in the program information storage means; and program information display means for providing a correction work support environment for display contents; and the program information. Stored in storage means A program information output unit for outputting the program information stored in the program information storage unit, outputting the program information to the program information output unit, displaying the program information on the program information display unit, and displaying the program information on the program information display unit Comprising program information input / output control means for performing control for storing program information corrected for the corrected contents in the program information storage means,
Program document maintenance device.