JP2000163254A - Software development managing device, software development managing method, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily manage software from its development to test for every source file unit and also to easily manage even software, that is distributed to plural computers and is developed, in the source file unit. SOLUTION: When a source file management program, a language processing program and a test supporting program are carried out, the execution results notifying functions 100 to 102 of each program notify a management server 110 of the execution results. In the server 110, an execution results receiving function 111 is started, and the notified are received and are stored in a database 113 by a storage function 112. When an inquiry comes to the server 110, a retrieval function 114 is started and extracts data such as the execution results of a specific source file from the database 113.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a software development management device, a software development management method, and a recording medium, and more particularly to a software development that collects and manages execution results of a program included in a CASE tool used in software development. The present invention relates to a management device, a software development management method, and a recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art CASE (computer aided software) used in conventional software development.
The tare engineering tool is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, it is composed of a source file 1, a source file management program 2, a language processing program 3, an object file 4, and a test support program 5.

The CASE tool having such a configuration is used as follows. That is, the created source file 1
Is registered in a file on the computer using the source file management program 2, and version number management is performed for each source file. Furthermore, the source file management program 2
The source file 1 registered as described above is taken out, and an object file 4 is created by using a language processing program 3 adapted to the computer language written in the source file 1.

[0004] The created object file 4 is loaded on a target computer, and a test is performed by a test support program 5.

[0005]

However, the prior art has the following problems. The first problem is that software development progress must be measured manually. The reason is that there is no means other than manually confirming from the execution result whether or not any of the source files 1 managed by the source file management program 2 has passed the language processing program 3 normally. is there.

A second problem is that the conventional source file management program 2 requires a manual operation to grasp the environment for managing the source file 1 when software development is performed on a plurality of computers. It means you have to rely on it. The reason is that since each source file management program 2 operates independently of the source file management program 2 on another computer, it is necessary to know manually whether the execution environment of the source file management has changed or has changed. Because it must be checked by

[0007] The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and enables management from software development to testing to be easily performed for each source file, and is distributed to a plurality of computers. The developed software can be easily managed in source file units.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a software development management apparatus for managing the progress of software development performed on one or a plurality of computers. A first item consisting of at least information specifying a computer storing a source file constituting the software, a second item consisting of the name of the source file, and a predetermined process for the source file. Receiving means for receiving a third item consisting of the execution result of the execution of the program, storing means for storing the content of each item received by the receiving means for each source file, and storing in the storage means Search means for searching the contents of each item corresponding to the source file name based on the source file name And it features. Further, the processing to be executed on the source file may be processing for converting the source file into an object file. Further, the processing to be executed on the source file may be a processing to execute an object file obtained by executing the language processing program on the source file and obtain an execution result. The software is configured from a plurality of source files, and stores configuration data storing configuration data in which a software name for identifying the software is associated with a source file name configuring the software. A retrieval means for retrieving and retrieving a source file name constituting software based on the software name stored in the means may be further provided. A software development management method according to claim 5, wherein the software development management method manages the progress of software development performed on one or a plurality of computers. The first item includes information for identifying a computer in which a source file to be stored is stored, the second item includes a name of the source file, and an execution result when a predetermined process is performed on the source file. Receiving the third item, storing the content of each item received for each source file, and searching for the content of each item corresponding to the source file name based on the stored source file name It is characterized by. A recording medium according to a sixth aspect is characterized by recording a program capable of executing the software development management method according to the fifth aspect. In the software development management apparatus, the software development management method, and the recording medium according to the present invention, at least a first item including information indicating a location where a source file constituting software is stored, and a name of the source file. Is stored for each source file, and a third item is stored for each source file. Based on the stored source file name, Search the contents of each item corresponding to the file name.

[0009]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of an embodiment of a software development management apparatus according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, a source file management program having an execution result notification function 100, a language processing program having an execution result notification function 101, a test support program having an execution result notification function 102, And a management server 110.

The outline of these functions is as follows. That is, the execution result notifying function 100 has a function of transmitting data obtained by combining parameters passed to the executed program and execution results (normal results and error results) to the management server 110. The execution result notification function 101 has a function of sending the execution result (normal result, error result) of the executed language processing program to the management server 110.
The execution result notifying function 102 has a function of sending an execution result (normal result, error result) of the executed test support program to the management server 110.

The management server 110 has an execution result notifying function 1
It is a server computer for collecting, storing, and retrieving execution results sent from 00, 101, and 102, respectively. Then, the management server 110 includes an execution result receiving function 111, a storage function 112, a database 113,
And a search function 114. The outline of these functions is as follows.

The execution result receiving function 111 receives data from the execution result notifying functions 100, 101, and 102 and classifies the data into source file units. The accumulation function 112 is an execution result result receiving function 1
The data collected in step 11 is stored in the database 113 or updated. Search function 114
Is designed to search for execution results for each source file.

Next, the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 to 4 and the registered data format shown in FIG.

First, when the source file management program is executed and the source file 1 is registered, the execution result notification function 10 implemented in the source file management program is executed.
0 (step A1 in FIG. 2), and the execution result notification function 100 passes the result to the management server 110 (step A2). Further, in the management server 110, the execution result receiving function 111 is activated, and the result notified by the execution result notifying function 100 is received (step A3). The result received by the management server 110 is stored in the database 113 as registration data shown in FIG.
4). In FIG. 5, the machine is a computer.

Next, a language processing program is executed on the source file 1, and the resulting object file and its execution result (normal result or error result)
Is passed to the execution result notifying function 101 implemented in the language processing program (step A5). Then, the result is passed from the execution result notifying function 101 to the management server 110 (step A6).

Further, in the management server 110, the execution result receiving function 111 is activated and the result is received (step A7), and at the same time, the search function 114 searches the database 113 for the source file name (step A8). ). Then, the execution result of the language processing program is stored in the data on the searched source file (FIG. 5) (step A9).

Similarly, the result of the test support program is sent to the management server 110 by the execution result notifying function 102.
To update the corresponding source file data (FIG. 5). That is, the name of the computer that performed the test and the result are stored.

A search function 11 on the management server 110
4 is started when an inquiry is made to the management server 110 (step A10), and the result data (execution host name, source file name (storage location), and result of source file management) related to a specific source file from the database 113 , Language processing results and test results) (step A11).

Next, a specific example of the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
FIG. 7 shows an example of registering the execution result of the source file management program in the management server 110, FIG. 7 shows an example of registering the execution result of the language processing program in the management server 110, and FIG. A specific example of data is shown.

First, as shown in FIG. 6, the execution result notifying function 100 in the source file management program sends a “source management machine name”, “source file name”, “version number”, An execution result consisting of “Result” is notified. The notified execution result is received by the execution result receiving function 111 of the management server 110, and is stored in the database 113 by the storage function 112 for each source file name.

Next, as shown in FIG. 7, the execution result notifying function 101 in the language processing program is used to execute the management server 110
Is notified of an execution result including the “language processing machine name”, the input “source file name”, and the “result”. The notified execution result is sent to the execution result receiving function 11.
1 and the search function 114 searches the database 113 for the data of the corresponding source file name. The storage function 112 updates the searched data with the notified execution result, thereby storing the database 11.
Update the contents of 3.

Also, regarding the notification to the management server 110 by the execution result notifying function 102 in the test support program, the same processing as that described above with reference to FIG. 7 is executed. As a result of these operations, as shown in FIG. 8, information in the source file name unit (source management machine name, source file name, version number, result, language processing machine + result, test machine + result) is stored in the database 113 as shown in FIG. Is accumulated.

The following effects can be obtained by using the above embodiment. The first effect is that the progress from development to testing can be measured numerically for each source file. The reason is that the update status of the source file 1 stored in the management server 110, the number of errors occurring in language processing, and the error classification can be searched for in source file units using the search function of the management server 110.
This is because the degree of software development, that is, the progress of development can be known for each source file.

The second effect is that the storage location of the source files 1 managed in a distributed manner can be easily searched by a program without manual operation. The reason is that information on the execution environment (which file was executed on which computer) is also sent from the respective programs to the management server 110 and stored in the database 113. This is because even if the search function of the management server 110 is used, it is possible to find the computer managing the source file and the execution environment for each source file.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described.
This will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 9, the present embodiment includes a source file management program in which an execution result notification function 200 is mounted, and a management server 210. The management server 210 includes an execution result receiving function 211, a storage function 212, a database 213, a search function 214, a configuration registration function 215, and a configuration retrieval function 21.
6 and configuration data 217.

Among these functions, the execution result notifying function 2
00, execution result receiving function 211, accumulation function 212,
The database 213 and the search function 214 have the same functions as those in the embodiment shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, a configuration registration function 215, a configuration retrieval function 216, and configuration data 217 are newly added to the configuration of the embodiment shown in FIG.

Next, these newly added functions will be described. The configuration registration function 215 registers the configuration of the software product. The configuration extraction function 216 has a function of extracting a specific source file from the configuration data 217.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The configuration registration function 215 inputs the components (software product name, component name of the product, source file name of the component) constituting the software product for each predetermined software product by external input. 10, data as shown in FIG. 10, that is, a software product name list including a software product name and a pointer to a component list, a component list including a component name and a pointer to a source list, and a source including a source file name The list is stored in the configuration data 217.

These stored data are extracted by the configuration extraction function 216 in the order of the hierarchy from the software product name to the source file name. Therefore, it is possible to extract the source file names constituting a predetermined software product. Then, the search function 214 is activated, and the information of the corresponding source file is obtained from the database 213.

Next, as shown in FIG.
The source file name is searched from the accumulated information stored in the ten databases 213 to obtain the computer name (source management machine name) of the host computer in which the substance of the source file name is stored.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the configuration data 217 indicating the source file constituting the software product is associated with the actual source file by the source file name. Thereby, the configuration data 2
Even if the source files making up the software product registered in 17 are distributed and managed, the entity of the source file can be searched.

As described above, every time each program of the CASE tool is executed, the contents specified in the program and the execution result are collectively transferred to the management server, and the software to be developed is configured on the management server. Summarizes the execution results for each source file Then, by using the results of the source files collected on the management server, the distributed source files can be managed, and the progress of the software to be developed can be managed.

[0033]

As described above, according to the software development management apparatus, the software development management method, and the recording medium of the present invention, at least a source file constituting software is transmitted from each computer. Receiving a first item consisting of information identifying the computer that is located, a second item consisting of the name of the source file, and a third item consisting of the result of execution of a predetermined process on the source file Then, the content of each received item is stored for each source file, and the content of each item corresponding to the source file name is searched based on the stored source file name. In addition, the progress of development can be grasped. Further, even when source files constituting software are distributed and developed on a plurality of computers, the storage location of each software can be searched.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of an embodiment of a software development management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing accumulated information of a management server 110.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for processing information from a source file management program.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for processing information from a language processing program.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of accumulated information of a management server 110.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of another embodiment of the software development management device of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration of configuration data 217 according to the embodiment of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a method of searching for distributed managed source files.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a conventional software development management device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Source file 2 Source file management program 3 Language processing program 4 Object file 5 Test support program 100, 101, 102 Execution result notification function 110, 210 Management server 111, 211 Execution result reception function 112, 212 Storage function 113, 213 Database 114 , 214 Search function 215 Configuration registration function 216 Configuration retrieval function 217 Configuration data

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A software development management device for managing the progress of software development performed on one or a plurality of computers, wherein at least a source file constituting the software transmitted from each computer is stored. A first item consisting of information identifying the computer being
Receiving means for receiving a second item consisting of the name of the source file and a third item consisting of an execution result when a predetermined process is executed on the source file; The contents of each of the above items,
Storage means for storing for each source file; and search means for searching for the content of each item corresponding to the source file name based on the source file name stored in the storage means. Software development management device. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing executed on the source file is a processing for converting the source file into an object file.
The software development management device according to 1. 3. The process executed on the source file is a process of executing an object file obtained by executing a language processing program on the source file and obtaining an execution result. The software development management device according to claim 1, wherein 4. The software includes a plurality of the source files, a software name for identifying the software,
A configuration data storage unit that stores configuration data associated with the source file name that configures the software; a source file name that configures the software based on the software name stored in the configuration data storage unit 2. The software development management device according to claim 1, further comprising: a retrieval unit that retrieves and retrieves a. 5. A software development management method for managing the progress of software development performed on one or more computers, wherein at least a source file constituting the software transmitted from each computer is stored. A first item consisting of information identifying the computer being
Receiving a second item consisting of the name of the source file and a third item consisting of an execution result when a predetermined process is performed on the source file; A software development management method, wherein the method is stored for each of the source files, and based on the stored source file names, retrieves contents of each item corresponding to the source file names. 6. A recording medium on which a program capable of executing the software development management method according to claim 5 is recorded.