JP5596188B2 - Program development history management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a program development history system that manages a history of development contents for each program in a so-called multi-development situation in which development of a plurality of programs proceeds simultaneously and in particular, a program to be managed The present invention relates to a program development history management system capable of searching and easily grasping contents and history of changes made to a program along with development.

In the development of business programs, various changes may be made to one program to derive a plurality of programs with different required specifications and different operation times. Usually, these programs are rarely used alone and are often combined with other programs. In this case, it is not always necessary to select and combine the programs changed last. In other words, it is necessary to appropriately select a program that has been changed to a predetermined stage according to the required specifications and operation time.
In general, the development history of a program is recorded and stored in time series. However, under a multi-development situation, multiple different content changes are made at different times for a huge number of programs, so it is inefficient to manually collate these change histories, There is also a risk of oversight or misunderstanding.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a system that compares two programs under the name “source program comparison information generation system” and generates information indicating the contents of the change. An invention related to this is disclosed.
The invention disclosed in Patent Document 1 recognizes the type of change made by comparing the source program before and after the change in the source program change work that occurs when developing the business program. The means for extracting the portion related to the change for each program in units of lines and the line including the head reserved word for the changed portions of both extracted programs are analyzed to generate comparison information.
According to the “source program comparison information generation system” having such a configuration, appropriate change type information is provided based on the instruction word or the like described at the top of the source program. By comparing the source programs before and after the change based on the information, the change contents can be easily grasped.

Further, Patent Document 2 discloses an invention relating to a method of easily determining whether or not a correction work for a program is correct by a syntax unit under the name “program correction result comparison method”.
In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2, in the correction work of the program, it is determined whether or not the correction has been correctly performed by collating with the correction content defined before the correction, and the user is asked to confirm the correction work. It has a structure to encourage.
According to such a method, the user can easily and reliably perform a program correction operation.

Further, Patent Document 3 extracts a corrected portion of a source program created for operating a computer under the name of “source program correction location extraction method” and a program corrected by this, in line units. An invention relating to the method is disclosed.
The invention disclosed in Patent Document 3 has a configuration in which a line group matching table and a line matching table are created, and correction points of the source program are extracted in line units based on the line matching table.
According to such a method, even when a modified program source is added in the middle of the program source before modification in the modified program source, all program modification parts can be extracted without error. . And this extraction operation | work can be performed without requiring much time like extraction of the program correction location by human visual observation.

JP 2003-280903 A JP-A-11-353162 JP-A-5-94343

  However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1 which is the above-described prior art, since it is not configured to be able to search two programs to be compared from a group of developed programs, for example, the same type It is difficult to select a plurality of programs to be used for the purpose, compare the states before and after the change for each program, and grasp the change contents.

  In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2, although it can be confirmed whether or not the change made to the program corresponds to the change of the specification, the history of the change made to the predetermined program or the same kind of purpose There is a problem that the contents of changes made in the past cannot be easily confirmed.

  In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 3, although all the corrected portions of a certain program can be extracted without error, the program that is the target of extracting the corrected portions is searched from a database or the like in which a developed program group is stored. However, there is a problem that the history of development contents for each program cannot be managed in a multi-development situation.

  The present invention has been made in response to such a conventional situation, and a source program (hereinafter referred to as a management program) from which a user of this system wishes to confirm development contents among a plurality of source programs that have already been developed. An object of the present invention is to provide a program development history management system capable of efficiently searching for a target source program) and easily grasping a history of changes made to the management target source program.

To achieve the above object, the inventions of claim 1, a program development history management system for managing development history as a target source program development history number is described in the comments, more Developed sources A storage device that stores a program, a display device that displays information read from the storage device on a screen, controls operations of the display device and the storage device, and searches and compares developed source programs. A processing device and an input device for inputting a keyword used for searching the developed source program to the processing device. The keyword is composed of a development history number, and the processing device accesses the storage device to store the developed source program. Based on the control means to read and the development history number entered as a keyword from the input device Comprising a program retrieval means for retrieving a managed source program from the grams, and a program comparison means for extracting the changes by comparing the states before and after the change for this managed source program, development history number, development year And a combination of an identification number assigned to each development subject .

In the program development history management system having such a configuration, the program search means includes a description that matches the development history number input from the input device to the processing device among the plurality of developed source programs stored in the storage device. The developed source program is searched as a managed source program, and changes to the managed source program are extracted. Further, the development history number clearly identifies the development year and the development contents for a plurality of developed source programs.

The invention according to claim 2 is the program development history management system according to claim 1, wherein the storage device stores the development history number as development history information in a state associated with the development subject representing the change contents, The keyword consists of a phrase indicating at least a part of the development subject instead of the development history number, and the processing device reads the development history information by the control means accessing the storage device and based on the phrase input from the input device. And a development history number search means for searching for a development history number corresponding to the target source program.
In the program development history management system having such a configuration, in addition to the operation of the invention described in claim 1, words input from the input device to the processing device among a plurality of developed source programs stored in the storage device are stored. The development history number corresponding to the included development subject is searched by the development history number search means.

Furthermore, the invention according to claim 3 is the program development history management system according to claim 2, wherein the storage device stores the operation start year of the developed source program in a state associated with the development history number as development history information. The development history number search means searches for the development history number corresponding to the management target source program based on the operation start year included in the operation period input from the input device.
In the program development history management system having such a configuration, in addition to the operation of the invention described in claim 2, within a period when a plurality of developed source programs stored in the storage device are input from the input device to the processing device. The development history number corresponding to the developed source program whose operation has been started is retrieved by the development history number retrieval means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the program development history management system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the processing device creates a document including an image diagram of the changed portion in the managed source program. It is characterized by having a program change document creating means.
According to the program development history management system having such a configuration, in addition to the operation of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, the contents of change can be easily grasped in a desired developed source program. Has the effect of

According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently search for a management target source program from a plurality of developed source programs, and to easily grasp the change history. In addition, the development year and development contents of multiple developed source programs are clearly identified by the development history number, so that users of this system can easily understand the contents of changes made to the managed source programs. Can do.

  According to the invention described in claim 2 of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, even if the user of this system does not know the development history number, it should know at least a part of the development subject. The system can be used.

  According to the invention described in claim 3 of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 2, an effect that the changed source program can be easily grasped about the developed source program that has started operation within a predetermined period. Play. Therefore, for example, by confirming the transition of the development contents for the program for each development subject, it is possible to efficiently verify whether or not the development method is appropriate.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 of the present invention, in addition to the effects of the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 3, it is easy to grasp the contents of change in a desired developed source program. There is an effect that it is possible to efficiently examine whether or not a program used in a certain system has been improved to an appropriate stage.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the program development log | history management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. (A) is a table | surface for demonstrating the development history information stored in the development history database, (b) is a figure for demonstrating the development history number shown to Fig.2 (a). It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement procedure of the program development log | history management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. (A) And (b) is a block diagram for demonstrating the function of a processing apparatus in the program development log | history management system shown in FIG. (A) And (b) is a block diagram for demonstrating the function of a processing apparatus in the program development log | history management system shown in FIG. (A) And (b) is the figure which showed an example of the "development history number list" and the "program list", respectively. It is a figure which shows an example of the "image figure of a change location". It is a figure which shows an example of a "program change document (P form)."

  The program development history management system of the present invention is used to manage the development history of a developed source program whose development history number is described in the comment field. Hereinafter, the configuration and operation procedure of the program development history management system of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the configuration of a program development history management system of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining development history information stored in a development history database.
As shown in FIG. 1, in the program development history management system of the present invention, a program storage database 1a and a development history database 1b are constructed in a storage device 1, and developed source programs and development histories stored in these databases are stored. A display device 2 that displays information on the screen, a printer, and the like, and an output device 3 that outputs information read from the storage device 1 and processing results thereof, a keyboard and a mouse, and a character input and display device. The input device 4 for performing a cursor operation or the like on the screen of FIG. 2, and the operation of each of these devices, and a storage device based on various instructions input from the input device 4 by the user of this system 1 is provided with a processing device 5 that reads and processes the information stored in 1.

  The processing device 5 includes a development history number search means 5a for searching for a development history number corresponding to a predetermined management target source program, and a development history stored in the program storage database 1a based on a keyword input from the input device 4. A program search means 5b for searching for a management target source program from among the source programs, a program comparison means 5c for comparing the state before and after the change with respect to this management target source program, and extracting the changed portion, and the above management source program , A program change document creating means 5d for creating a document (program change document to be described later) indicating the contents of the change, and accessing the storage device 1 to read information on the developed source program and development history, and processing based on the information Write the result to the storage device 1 and display it Location 2, and a control unit 5e for controlling the operation of the output device 3 and an input device 4.

As shown in FIG. 2A, in the development history database 1b, “development history number”, “development subject name”, and “operation start date” are stored as “development history information” in association with each other. Yes.
The “development history number” is a five-digit character symbol consisting of two types of letters, an alphabet and a number. Specifically, as shown in FIG. “Development classification” expressed in characters and “Development subject” are consecutively attached, “History number” expressed in two digits, and multiple source programs included in one “Development subject” It consists of “Item numbers” that are consecutively assigned for distinction.

In other words, the “development category” indicates the year in which the development of a certain developed source program is started. “History number” is a number for identifying “development contents”. Even if “development category” is different, if “development subject” is the same, the same number is assigned. Even if the "development contents" are the same, different programs are given different numbers. Furthermore, an identification number is assigned to the developed source program as will be described later.
By using the “development history number” configured in this way, the development year and development contents of a plurality of developed source programs are clearly identified. The contents of the changes made can be easily understood.

The developed source program is created in a programming language “COBOL”, and “development history number” is described after the 73rd column of each predetermined line.
In the present embodiment, “COBOL” is used. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and other programming languages can be used as long as comments can be described in the program. Further, since the comment described in the program can be extracted by a well-known method, detailed description thereof is omitted.

Next, the operation of the program development history management system will be described using FIG. 3 with reference to FIGS. 4 to 8 as appropriate.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the program development history management system of the present invention, and FIGS. 4 and 5 are block diagrams for explaining the functions of the processing device 5. FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams showing examples of a “development history number list” and a “program list”, respectively. FIGS. 7 and 8 are “image diagrams of changed portions”, respectively. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a “program change book (P form)”. In addition, about the component shown in FIG.1 and FIG.2, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and the description is abbreviate | omitted.

As shown in FIG. 3, in step S1, the development history number search means 5a searches for a “development history number” representing a predetermined developed source program.
Specifically, first, in FIG. 4A, when the user of this system inputs a phrase indicating at least a part of “development subject” as a search keyword to the processing device 5 using the input device 4. (Arrow A) The control means 5e sends a search start command together with the search keyword to the development history number search means 5a (arrow B). Upon receiving this instruction, the development history number search means 5a refers to the “development history information” stored in the development history database 1b (arrow C), searches for the “development subject” that includes the above search keyword, A “development history number list (development history number list)” (see FIG. 6A) corresponding to the “development subject” is created and sent to the control means 5e (arrow D).
Thus, even if the user of this system does not know the “development history number”, the program development history management system of the present invention can be used if it knows at least a part of the “development subject”.

  The control means 5e that has received the “development history number list” sends a display command to the display device 2 (arrow E) and causes the “development history number list” to be displayed on the screen of the display device 2. Further, when receiving an output request from the user of this system via the input device 4 (arrow A), the control means 5e sends a command to the output device 3 (arrow F) to print the “development history number list”. .

In step S2, the program search means 5b searches for the management target source program based on the “development history number list” created by the development history number search means 5a in step S1.
As shown in FIG. 4B, when the “development history number” selected by the user of this system from the “development history number list” displayed on the display device 2 is input from the input device 4 (arrow A) The control means 5e sends a search start command together with the “development history number” to the program search means 5b (arrow G). Receiving this instruction, the program search means 5b refers to the developed source program stored in the program storage database 1a (arrow H), searches for the program whose development history number is described in the program, and For each “development history number”, a “program list” (see FIG. 6B) in which the identification number is written is created as a management target source program and sent to the control means 5e (arrow I ).
Further, the control means 5e sends a display command to the display device 2 (arrow E), and displays a “program list” on the screen of the display device 2. Further, when receiving an output request from the user of this system via the input device 4 (arrow A), the control means 5e sends a command to the output device 3 (arrow F) to print a “program list”.

  In this embodiment, the user of this system selects a predetermined “development history number” from the “development history number list” displayed on the display device 2 and inputs it from the input device 4. It is not necessarily limited to such a configuration. For example, in the process already described with reference to FIG. 4A, the user of this system inputs an appropriate phrase indicating a desired “development subject” from the input device 4 to the processing device 5 as a search keyword. When there is no need to further narrow down the searched “development history number”, the above-mentioned operation in which the user of this system selects a predetermined “development history number” from the “development history number list” is unnecessary. Become.

Furthermore, in the program development history management system of the present invention, not only a phrase indicating at least a part of “development subject” but also “development history number” and “operation period” can be input from the input device 4 as search keywords. It has become.
Therefore, when the “development history number” is known, the user of this system can input “development history number” from the input device 4 as a search keyword instead of the above phrase (FIG. 4A). Arrow A). In this case, the control means 5e sends this “development history number” to the development history number search means 5a (arrow B in FIG. 4A), and the development history number search means 5a consists of the “development history number”. A “development history number list” (see FIG. 6A) is created and sent to the control means 5e (arrow D in FIG. 4A).

  When the user of this system inputs “operation period” from the input device 4 as a search keyword instead of the above-mentioned words (arrow A in FIG. 4A), the control means 5e performs this search. A search start command is sent to the development history number search means 5a together with the keyword for use (arrow B in FIG. 4A). Upon receiving this instruction, the development history number search means 5a refers to the “operation start date” stored as “development history information” in the development history database 1b (arrow C in FIG. 4A), and the input device 4 Search for “development subject” that includes a developed source program that has started operation within the “operation period” entered as a search keyword from “Development history number list” corresponding to the “development subject” (Figure 6 (a)) is created and sent to the control means 5e (arrow D in FIG. 4 (a)).

In step S3, the program comparison unit 5c compares the state before and after the change with respect to the managed source program searched by the program search unit 5b in step S2, and extracts the changed portion.
As shown in FIG. 5A, when the identification number of the management source program selected by the user of this system from the “program list” displayed on the display device 2 is input from the input device 4 (arrow A) The control means 5e sends an extraction start command together with the identification number of the management target source program to the program comparison means 5c (arrow J). Receiving this command, the program comparison means 5c refers to the managed source program stored in the program storage database 1a (arrow K), compares the state before and after correction for each managed source program, and extracts the changed portion. . Then, together with the changed portion, an “image diagram” (see FIG. 7) showing the contents of the modification, deletion, addition, etc. is created and sent to the control means 5e (arrow L), and this “changed portion image diagram” is developed. Store in the history database 1b (arrow M).
As a result, the user of this system can efficiently search for a management target source program from among a plurality of source programs that have already been developed, and can easily grasp the change history.
Further, as described above, by inputting “development history number” as a search keyword from the input device 4, it is possible to confirm the transition of development contents for each “development subject” for a desired developed source program. It is possible to efficiently verify whether or not the development method was appropriate.

  Note that the control means 5e sends a display command to the display device 2 (arrow E), and displays the “image diagram of the changed portion” on the screen of the display device 2. When the control means 5e receives an output request from the user of the system via the input device 4 (arrow A), it sends a command to the output device 3 (arrow F), and prints the above “image diagram of changed portion”. Let

  In this embodiment, the user of this system selects an identification number indicating a predetermined management target source program from the “program list” displayed on the display device 2 and inputs it from the input device 4. It is not limited to such a configuration. For example, in the process already described with reference to FIG. 5A, the program comparison unit 5c that has received the extraction start command from the control unit 5e refers to the managed source program stored in the program storage database 1a ( A configuration may be adopted in which the changed part is extracted by automatically comparing the state before and after the correction for each management target source program based on the identification number, as indicated by an arrow K in FIG. In this case, it is not necessary to narrow down the management target source program by the user of the system described above.

In step S4, the program change document creating means 5d creates a program change document (P form) indicating the contents of the change for the management target source program.
As shown in FIG. 5B, among the management target source programs for which the “image diagram of changed portion” has been created by the program comparison means 5c in step S3, the management that the user of this system desires to create a program change document. When the identification number of the target source program is input from the input device 4 (arrow A), the control unit 5e sends a program change document creation start command together with the identification number of the management source program to the program change document creation unit 5d (arrow). N). Receiving this command, the program change document creation means 5d refers to the “changed part image diagram” stored in the development history database 1b (arrow O), and corresponds to the “changed part” corresponding to the identification number input from the input device 4. Is read out, a “program change document” (see FIG. 8) is created and sent to the control means 5e (arrow P), and stored in the development history database 1b (arrow Q).
As described above, according to the program development history management system of the present invention, it is easy to grasp the contents of change in the developed source program. Therefore, whether or not the program used in a certain system has been improved to an appropriate stage. Can be efficiently studied.

  The control means 5e sends a display command to the display device 2 (arrow E), and displays a program change document on the screen of the display device 2. When the control means 5e receives an output request from the user of this system via the input device 4 (arrow A), the control means 5e sends a command to the output device 3 (arrow F) to print this "program change document". .

The configuration of the program development history management system of the present invention is not limited to the case shown in this embodiment. For example, in FIG. 4B, when the user of this system inputs “identification number” and “operation period” of a desired developed source program from the input device 4 instead of “development history number” (arrow A). ), The control means 5e sends a search start command together with the “identification number” to the program search means 5b (arrow G), and the program search means 5b has been developed corresponding to the “identification number” and “operation period”. The source program can be searched from the program storage database 1a (arrow H), and all the “development history numbers” described in the program can be extracted to create a “development history number list”. .
According to such a configuration, what kind of changes have been made under what “development subject” within a given period for a specific developed source program that the user of this system wants to manage development history. It is possible to easily grasp what has been done.

The inventions described in claims 1 to 4 of the present invention are applicable to managing the development history of each program in a multi-development situation where a plurality of programs are developed simultaneously.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Memory | storage device 1a ... Program storage database 1b ... Development history database 2 ... Display apparatus 3 ... Output device 4 ... Input device 5 ... Processing device 5a ... Development history number search means 5b ... Program search means 5c ... Program comparison means 5d ... Program Change document creation means 5e ... control means

Claims (4)

A program development history management system for managing a development history for a developed source program whose development history number is described in a comment field,
A storage device storing a plurality of the developed source programs;
A display device for displaying information read from the storage device on a screen;
A processing device for controlling operations of the display device and the storage device and for searching and comparing the developed source program;
An input device for inputting a keyword used for searching the developed source program to the processing device,
The keyword consists of the development history number,
The processor is
Control means for accessing the storage device and reading the developed source program;
Program search means for searching for a managed source program from the developed source programs based on the development history number input from the input device;
A program comparison means for comparing the state before and after the change with respect to the managed source program and extracting the changed portion , and
The development history number comprises a combination of a symbol indicating a development year and an identification number assigned to each development subject . In the storage device, the development history number is stored as development history information in a state associated with the development subject representing the change contents,
The keyword consists of a phrase indicating at least a part of the development subject instead of the development history number,
The processor is
The control means accesses the storage device and reads the development history information,
Program development history managing system according to claim 1 characterized in that example Bei development history number retrieval means for retrieving the development history number corresponding to the managed source program based on the phrase inputted from said input device . The storage device
The operation start year of the developed source program is stored in the state associated with the development history number as the development history information,
The development history number search means includes:
3. The program development history management system according to claim 2, wherein the development history number corresponding to the managed source program is searched based on the operation start year included in the operation period input from the input device. The processor is
4. The program development history management system according to claim 1, further comprising a program change document creating unit that creates a document including an image diagram of the changed portion in the managed source program. 5. .

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