Automatic transformation from data flow diagram to structure chart

  • Authors:
  • Minyi Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • Doctoral Program in Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The software development methodologies---structured analysis and structured design techniques are considered as the most popular and successful. But the process of transforming from structured software specification to structured design document is a challengingly intelligent activity. In this paper, we attempt to solve this problem automatically in our CASE tool, called CAST (Computer-Aided Structured Transformation). We propose a description language as a common machinery for the representation of various structured tools. Two kinds of algorithms which correspond to two structured analysis methods called transform analysis and transaction analysis, used to produce structure charts from data flow diagrams, are presented. The architecture of CAST is also described in the paper.