System design with Ada
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
A complete notation for Ada charts
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
Software Engineering with ADA
Integrating Ada design graphics into the Ada software development process
WADAS '88 Proceedings of the fifth Washington Ada symposium on Ada
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Significant work has been done by others on tools that allow software engineers to graphically illustrate software designs and, in some cases, to produce code automatically from the graphical design. What we posit here is that, given the current technology available in the marketplace, over the life of a typical software project it is more beneficial to produce accurate graphical representations of a software design from the code. We have developed a prototype tool that will take as input any legal Ada compilation unit, or set of units, and produce a precise graphical representation of those units. Because of the inherent suitability of Ada as a compilable Program Design Language (PDL), our tool is usable virtually throughout the software development life-cycle. This tool has been used successfully at Sandia National Laboratories during the preliminary and detailed design phases of a medium-sized software development project; moreover, we believe benefits will continue to accrue during the later stages of the life-cycle, particularly software maintenance and enhancement.