Visual-based software construction methodology

  • Authors:

  • Deng-Jyi Chen;Ming-Jyh Tsai;Chung-Yuan Huang

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Most software development errors are caused by incorrect or ambiguous requirement specifications gathered during the requirement elicitation and analysis phase. For the past decades, both academic researchers and software engineers have been seeking better software requirement analysis and representation approaches for overcoming the problem mentioned above. Another equally important issue in software engineering area is how to reduce the cost of developing and maintaining the application software. In this paper, we propose a visual-based software construction approach that uses the multimedia requirement scenario, created by a visual requirement authoring tool, to depict the requirement of the application software. It also supports a visual program generator that allows system developers to generate the target application system as specified in the multimedia requirement scenario. The target application software can be generated based on the function binding features provided in the visual program generator to bind each actors of scene with the associated application function. The application software development cost and maintenance effort can be reduced while applying the proposed software construction approach.