Supporting software design based on comments in codes

Authors:
Tetsuya Yoshida
Affiliations:
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Venue:
ACOS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
Year:
2006

Citing 8
Cited 0

Understanding and debugging novice programs

Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on artificial intelligence and learning environments
Improving human decision making through case-based decision aiding

AI Magazine
Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations: some linguistic and ontological criteria for structuring knowledge bases

Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on linguistic instruments in knowledge engineering (LIKE)
The art of Prolog (2nd ed.): advanced programming techniques

The art of Prolog (2nd ed.): advanced programming techniques
Frameworks for component-based client/server computing

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming

Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
An image based design support system for web page design

International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for supporting software design based on comments which are usually inserted into a source code. It is believed that a software designer often leaves hints or clues with respect to the rationale for each module or software component as comments when he/she designs and implements software as a source code. Comments in the source code are utilized for organizing the pieces of the codes into a tree structure so that the overall structure of the code can be explicitly represented. Case based support is then invoked for enabling the effective reuse of other software (source codes) based on the constructed structure for the source code, especially at the upper process in software design. A prototype system with the method has been implemented on a personal computer with Java language, and experiments were conducted to investigate its effectiveness. The results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.