SCALABILITY FOR GRAPH-BASED CASE TOOLS
| Autor: | Mark Sifer, John Potter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Structured analysis
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science business.industry Graph based Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Data flow diagram Artificial Intelligence Scalability Graph (abstract data type) Computer-aided software engineering Software engineering business Software Formal description |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. :347-365 |
| ISSN: | 1793-6403 0218-1940 |
| Popis: | Software engineering is particularly concerned with the construction of large systems. Existing software engineering tools tend to be adequate for medium-sized systems, but not as useful for large and very large systems. This paper presents a model viewing system as the basis for graph-based CASE tools which overcomes this lack of scalability. With existing commercial tools the number of user steps to browse or edit a model increases with the size of the model. With the approach of this paper, the number of steps remains constant regardless of the model size. In fact, only one step is required for operations such as adding a flow between two processes anywhere in the model, or moving a submodel to a new parent. This paper outlines the approach with a structured analysis example, provides a formal description of the model viewing system, and discusses some limitations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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