JPH0588865A - Software design supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To preserve the many kinds of design drawing data in a common language form to be easily comprehended by humans and to easily plan a design drawing in a short time while using a source program for analysis concerning these preserved data. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a program generating means to automatically generate the program for analysis and a program for generation from the grammar information of the design drawing data defined by a developing person, file 16 for storing the design drawing data, and drawing editor 10 integrating the program for analysis and the program for generation so as to generate actually inputted software design information in a language form according to a prescribed grammar while using the program for generation, to store the information in the file 16 for storing the design drawing data, to analyze the language form data stored in this file 16 for storage while using the program for analysis, and to edit-out the design drawing.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a software design support device used to support software design, and in particular, creates various design drawings (drawings) using files in a common language format. The present invention relates to a software design support device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In designing software of this kind, a design that can be actually used is created from software design information of a flow chart, a PAD (horizontal tree figure) diagram, an HCP chart and various other graphic programming languages. But,
Computer assistance is widely used in the process of creating this blueprint.

By the way, conventionally, when making a design drawing, that is, a drawing from software design information, a drawing editing device is used for each type of software design information, and each software design information is converted into data which can be made into a drawing in a unique format. It was described and was not made public to the users of the device.

However, in recent years, software design information has been converted into a language and then converted into a text database. In this case as well, a drawing editing device is used for each software design information as described above, but if a part of the data is destroyed by creating a text database, or if the device is expanded in function, the data can be read. When it disappears, it becomes possible to repair or correct it by adding or deleting data using an ordinary drawing editing device (for example, a text editor), and it is shifting to a direction that is easier to use.

[0005]

However, in the apparatus as described above, since each software design information is still converted into the text data which can be formed into a drawing in a unique format, each software design information is converted. When describing text data, the description method must be different and very complicated. As a result, when the user of the device corrects the contents of the text data, it is necessary to know the correction method for each software design information, and it is very difficult to acquire the correction method.

Therefore, if the method of determining the format of the text data according to a certain rule is adopted, the method of correcting the data becomes easy, but it is confirmed whether or not the format of the certain text data is converted according to the rule. If
Due to the type of software design information and the complexity of individual software design information, it is very difficult to confirm. Further, the drawing developer side needs to analyze the text data each time to create a design drawing, but even in this case, it is difficult to design a program for creating the design drawing.

The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and can be converted into data in a language format that can be easily understood by humans based on software design information and saved, and can be dependent on the type of software design information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a software design support device that can be saved in a common language format without being created, and that can easily create a design drawing from saved design drawing data.

Another object of the present invention is that, when different design drawing data is stored for each drawing editing device, each drawing editing device uses the other stored design drawing data to create a design drawing. It is to provide a software design support device that can be created.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention corresponding to claim 1 defines grammatical information for defining a description format of design drawing data, and grammatical information of the defined design drawing data. A program creating means for automatically generating the analysis program and the generation program for the design drawing data and a design drawing data storage file are provided, and the analysis program and the generation program automatically generated by the program creating means are incorporated. , The actually input software design information is generated in a language format according to a predetermined grammar by using the generation program, stored in the design drawing data storage file, and stored in the design drawing data storage file. Analyze the stored language format data using the analysis program and edit the design drawing. It is a software design support device provided with a drawing editing apparatus for output.

Next, in the invention according to claim 2, different design drawing data is stored in the design drawing data storage file by using a common language format for each drawing editing apparatus.
Each of these drawing editing devices is provided with design drawing mutual conversion means for editing and outputting different design drawings by analyzing design drawing data in a design drawing data storage file of another drawing editing device.

[0011]

Therefore, the invention according to claim 1 is to generate the design drawing data of the drawing editing apparatus after automatically generating the generation and analysis programs from the grammatical information of the design drawing data defined by the developer of the drawing editing apparatus. Part and design drawing data analysis part. In this state, when the developer inputs software design information related to a certain type of design drawing, common language formalized design drawing data based on the grammar information is created by using the generation program to generate the design drawing data. Saved in a file for storage. Then, if necessary, the design drawing data in a language format is read from the file, analyzed using the analysis program, and edited to perform a desired design drawing.

Next, according to the invention corresponding to claim 2,
Other design drawings can be created by using the same drawing editing apparatus by reading out the design drawing data stored in the other design drawing data files in the common language format, analyzing them by the analysis program, and performing the editing process.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the device of the present invention, design drawing data is saved using a common language format for a plurality of types of software design information such as flow charts, PAD (horizontal tree figure) diagrams, HCP charts, and the saved design drawings. The purpose is to create and output a design drawing that corresponds to software design information, that is, a drawing from data.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a program creating means for creating design drawing data from software design information, and automatically generating a program for analyzing the design drawing data and outputting the design drawing. Specifically, this program creating means is suitable for the mechanization processing of the meta description file 2 describing the grammatical expression format defined by the drawing editing apparatus developer 1, and the grammatical expression format data described in the meta description file 2. A general generator 3 for converting into language format data, a meta description file 4 describing the language format data converted by the general generator 3, and a grammar expression format defined in the meta description file 2 by the drawing editing device developer 1 It is composed of a grammar description file 5 for storing grammar (syntax) information of design drawing data, a program generator 6, and the like.

The program generator 6 receives the grammatical expression format data of the meta definition file 4 and uses the grammar information of the design drawing data defined in the grammar description file 5 to generate a design drawing data source program 7 and an analysis source program 8. Has a function to automatically generate.

Next, FIG. 2 is a diagram for creating and outputting a design drawing for the software design information input by the drawing editing apparatus developer 1 using the generation source program 7 and the analysis source program 8. That is, this configuration has, for example, a first drawing editing apparatus 10 having an editing function as a flowchart editor and a second drawing editing apparatus 20 having an editing function as a PAD editor. , 20 are provided with design drawing data files 16, 26, respectively.

In these drawing editing devices 10 and 20, the generation source program 7 and the analysis source program 8 automatically generated by the program generator 6 are incorporated, and the generation source for the software design information input by the operator is used. Design drawing data is created using the program 7 and the design drawing data files 16 and 26 are created.
The design drawing data generators 11 and 21 to be stored in and the design drawing data analysis unit 12 that analyzes and outputs the design drawing data using the analysis source program 8 for the design drawing data stored in the design drawing data files 16 and 26. , 22
Further, edit screen display units 13 and 23 for displaying, for example, flow chart design drawings and PAD design drawings, conventionally known design drawing editing units 14 and 24, and internal data units 15 and 25 are provided.

Next, the operation of the apparatus configured as described above will be described. First, the drawing editing apparatus developer 1 needs to define a grammar expression format to be defined in the grammar description file 5 when creating a program of design drawing data. Therefore, the developer 1
For example, a grammatical expression format as shown in FIG. 3, for example, the syntax method uses UNIX yacc (language used in operating system OS), and the lexical analysis method uses UN.
Define to use IX lex. The grammatical expression format data defined in this way is converted into grammatical expression format data suitable for mechanization processing by the general generator 3 and then stored in the meta definition file 4. From this meta definition file 4, the grammar expression format data is programmed. It is sent to the generator 6.

Further, in the drawing editing apparatus developer 1,
The grammar information of the design drawing data is defined in the grammar description file 5 in a description format as shown in FIG. 4 according to the grammar expression format of the meta description file 2. The upper side in the figure follows the syntax method of FIG. 3, the lower side follows the lexical analysis method of FIG. 3, and mcl means design drawing data. The grammatical information of the design drawing data thus defined in the grammar description file 5 is similarly sent to the program generator 6, where the grammar information of the design drawing data defined in the grammar description file 5 and the grammar information from the meta definition file 4 are used. A generation source program 7 and an analysis source program 8 for generating actual design drawing data are automatically generated from the expression format. In the program generator 6, the automatically generated generation source program 7 is used for the design drawing data generation units 11 and 21 of the drawing editing devices 10 and 20, and the analysis source program 8 is used for the design of the drawing editing devices 10 and 20. It is incorporated in the figure data analysis units 12 and 22.

By the way, at any time, the drawing editing apparatus developer 1 uses, for example, the drawing editing apparatus 10 to design a drawing (drawing).
However, in this case, software design information corresponding to a desired design drawing is input via an input device (not shown). This software design information is sent to the design drawing data generation unit 11 through the design drawing editing unit 14 and the internal data unit 15.

The design drawing data generator 11 generates the source program 7 for generating software design information.
By creating the design drawing data using, the design drawing data file 16 can store the data in the text format as shown in FIG. 5 according to the grammar information of the design drawing data defined in the grammar description file 5. Therefore, the design drawing data of the design drawing data file 16 is expressed in a language format that is easy for humans to understand as is clear from FIG. 5, and can be created and saved in a similar language format regardless of the type of design drawing. ..

As described above, the design drawing data is created by creating the design drawing data for the software design information.
After that, the design drawing data analysis unit 12 reads the design drawing data of the design drawing data file 16 using the analysis source program 8 already incorporated and analyzes it when necessary. The data of this analysis result is converted into coordinate data by the internal data unit 15 and then edited to display a flowchart design drawing as shown in the drawing on the editing screen display unit 13, and thus a printer or the like can be used to print the flowchart. The design drawing of the chart can be output.

In the drawing editing device 20 as well, the PA
It is possible to display the PAD design drawing on the edit screen display unit 23 by inputting the software design information related to the D design drawing, creating the design drawing data in the same manner, and analyzing and performing the editing process.

Therefore, according to the configuration of the above embodiment, the program generator 6 includes the meta definition file 4
Although the grammatical information of the design drawing data of the grammar description file 5 is recognized based on the grammatical expression format of, the grammatical expression format of the meta definition file 4 can be pointed out as an error if there is a description of a language that does not match the grammatical expression format. By doing so, it is possible to create design drawing data for each software design information without any contradiction.

If the design drawing data is created from the software design information by using the generation source program 7 that is automatically generated based on the grammatical information of the design drawing data defined in the grammar description file 5, It is possible to create design drawing data in a common language format according to the grammatical syntax for the software design information related to the design drawing. Moreover,
Design drawing data file 1 to save this design drawing data
Since the internal data format of 6, 26 is a text format that conforms to the grammatical syntax, it can be easily understood by humans and can be expressed in the same language format regardless of the type of blueprint.
The handling operation by the developer becomes very easy. This is
The design drawing can be created relatively easily, and the design drawing can be easily modified to obtain the desired design drawing. further,
It is possible to guarantee the realization of the design drawing data file 16 in a consistent language format, and it is possible to greatly reduce the drawing development time of the device by automating the language conversion part.

In the above embodiment, the drawing editing device 10, which is different for each flow chart design drawing and PAD design drawing, is used.
20 is used, for example, in the drawing editing device 20 for PAD design drawing, the saved data of the design drawing data file 16 corresponding to the partner drawing editing device 10 is read out and the analysis source program 8 is used. If analyzed, the flow chart design drawing, not the PAD design drawing, can be displayed on the edit screen display unit 23, and the flow chart design drawing can be printed out from the drawing editing device 20. In the opposite case, another design drawing can be created and output in the same manner. The present invention can be variously modified and implemented without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, the internal data format of the design drawing data file is represented by the text format of the syntax for creating the design drawing, which is very easy for human beings to understand, and Design drawing data can be created and saved regardless of the type of design drawing, and a design drawing can be created easily using the saved source program for this saved data. Therefore, many kinds of design drawings can be created automatically and in short. Can be created in time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a program creating means which is a part of a software design support apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a relationship between a drawing editing device and a design drawing data file which are part of a software design support device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing definition contents of a meta description file shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing definition contents of a grammar description file shown in FIG. 1.

5 is a diagram showing an internal data format of the design drawing data file shown in FIG. 2. FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Drawing editing device developer, 2 ... Meta description file, 3 ...
General generator, 4 ... Meta definition file, 5 ... Grammar description file, 6 ... Program generator, 7 ... Generation source program, 8 ... Analysis source program, 1
0, 20 ... Drawing editing device 11, 21, ... Design drawing data generation unit, 12, 22 ... Design drawing data analysis unit, 13, 23 ...
Edit screen display section 16, 26 ... Design drawing data file.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A program creating means for defining grammatical information for defining a description format of design drawing data, and automatically generating an analysis program and a generation program for the design drawing data from the defined grammatical information of the design drawing data. , A design drawing data storage file, and an analysis program and a generation program automatically generated by the program creating means are incorporated, and the actually input software design information is converted into a predetermined grammar using the generation program. Generated in the specified language format and stored in the design drawing data storage file, and analyze the language format data stored in the design drawing data storage file using the analysis program, and edit and output the design drawing. And a drawing editing device provided for each of the design drawing data storage files. A software design support device characterized in that 2. A program creating means for defining grammar information for defining a description format of the design drawing data, and automatically generating an analysis program and a generation program for the design drawing data from the defined grammar information of the design drawing data. A design drawing data storage file, and an analysis program and a generation program automatically generated by the program creating means are incorporated, and predetermined design software software design information is input using the generation program. Generate a language format according to the grammar and store it in the design drawing data storage file, and analyze the language format data stored in the design drawing data storage file using the analysis program to obtain a design drawing. Edit and output multiple drawings provided for each file for storing the design drawing data Device and language format data that has already been generated and stored using the generation program in the design drawing data storage file in which one drawing editing device among these drawing editing devices has a corresponding relationship with another drawing editing device And a design drawing mutual conversion means for editing and outputting mutually different design drawings by analyzing the above-mentioned analysis program using the software design support device.