JPH0619692A - Software development supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a software development supporting device by which a task application soft which operates the management of a telephone directory or the like can be easily constructed. CONSTITUTION:This device is equipped with a menu control data 10 which defines a task to be processed, for example, the management of the telephone directory or the like, menu program 11 which operates a processing related with a menu by using the menu control data 10, processing control data 12 which defines the flow of the processing of the task selected from the menu, processing program 13 which operates the processing of each task by using the processing control data 12, registered registration data 14 to be managed, partial program control data 15 which sets the specification of the usage of the registration program 14, plural partial programs 16 which operate the processing of each task by using the partial program control data 15, and setting tool 17 which sets each control data 10, 12, and 15.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a software development support device used for constructing business application software for managing building maintenance, for example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With regard to building maintenance management, equipment maintenance management, personnel management, etc., there are many objects to be managed, such as installation of disaster prevention devices and crime prevention devices, due to the rise and modernization of buildings and the development of communication networks. Moreover, the target is complicated
As it is advanced, it is difficult to manage it manually. Therefore, with respect to such business, today, these businesses are managed using a computer.

[0003]

However, software development generally requires a lot of manpower, and, for example, business application software for managing building maintenance, etc. is based on the demands of building owners who are customers. Since the designer had developed it for each building, it takes a lot of manpower and time to develop such application software for business use. Therefore, not only does the application software for business use become expensive, There was a problem that it was not possible to meet the demand for application software.

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a software development support apparatus capable of easily constructing business application software for performing building maintenance management and the like. .

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a software development support apparatus of the present invention is a menu control data defining a task to be processed, and a menu for performing a menu-related process using the menu control data. A program, processing control data that defines a processing flow of the business selected from a menu, a processing program that processes each business using the processing control data, and registered registration data that is a management target. A part program control data in which a specification of how to use the registration data is set, and a plurality of part programs for processing individual jobs among the jobs using the part program control data, The processing control data defines the order of execution by selecting the required one from the plurality of component programs. It is characterized in that.

Further, it is desirable to provide means for changing each data of the menu control data, the processing control data and the component program control data.

[0007]

The operation of the present invention configured as described above will be described below. In advance, multiple component programs that perform various individual work processes required for each work such as building maintenance management, equipment maintenance management, personnel management, etc., for example, data displayed on the screen for building maintenance management work A program for processing data, a program for processing data to be output on a fixed form, etc. are registered and placed. A software developer can build a business application software by selecting a component program that performs a required individual job and determining the order of execution.

Further, by providing means for changing each data of the menu control data, the processing control data and the component program control data, the software developer can freely set the contents of the menu, the contents of the work to be processed and the contents of the individual work. Can be changed to

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a software development support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing in detail the component program control data of the software development support apparatus. The apparatus according to the present embodiment has a menu control data 10 that defines menu titles and jobs to be processed, such as building maintenance management, equipment maintenance management, and personnel management.
And a menu program 11 that performs a menu-related process using the menu control data 10, and a process control data 1 that defines a process flow of a job selected from the menu.
2, a processing program 13 that processes each job using the processing control data 12, registered registration data 14 to be managed, and a component program that sets specifications of how to use the registration data 14. The control data 15 and a plurality of component programs 16 that perform individual business processes in the business using the component program control data 15 and each data of the menu control data 10, the processing control data 12, and the component program control data 15 are set. And a setting tool 17 for doing so. Reference numeral 20 is an input device such as a keyboard, 21 is an output device for display such as a CRT, and 22 is an output device such as a printer for printing the processing result on paper.

The process control data 12 is data that defines the flow of the business process selected from the menu, that is, the necessary sequence is selected from a plurality of component programs 16 and the order of execution is defined.

The component program control data 15 includes file format data 151 and screen control data 15
2, master pull control data 153, condition control data 1
54, condition instruction control data 155, form control data 15
6 and edit control data 157. The file format data 151 is data defining the format such as the digit position and data length of each item of the registration data 14, the screen control data 152 is data defining the coordinate position of the data to be displayed on the screen, the output format, etc. The master pull control data 153 is data used when inputting with reference to the master data or dictionary data, the condition control data 154 is data defining items to be searched conditions or aggregation conditions, and the condition instruction control data 155 is searched. Data defining condition data such as conditions and tabulation conditions, form control data 156 is data defining coordinate positions and output formats of data to be output on a standard form, and edit control data 157 is data defining data editing conditions. Is.

Next, a case of constructing business application software by the apparatus of this embodiment will be described. For ease of explanation, a case of constructing management software for a telephone directory will be described. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of management of a telephone directory to be constructed by the apparatus of this embodiment.

The management of the telephone directory constructed by the apparatus of this embodiment is
The registration data having a hierarchical structure is processed using various screens. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, a menu screen 30 for selecting the management of the telephone directory from a plurality of tasks,
A menu screen 31 for selecting a necessary business process from the management of the phone book, for example, a process of setting the phone book or outputting the phone book, a screen for selecting a function in each process,
For example, when “Phonebook setting” is selected on the menu screen 31, a selection screen 32 for selecting the Japanese syllabary or the name displayed when “A name” is selected on the selection screen 32 is selected. Selection screen 33 for selection, and each selection screen 3
2 and 33, a mode display screen for displaying various modes selected by pressing the function key of the input device 20, for example, an additional mode screen 34 for adding new Japanese syllabary or alphabetic characters, and setting of a telephone number. Has an additional mode screen 35 for performing. The selection screen 32 is used as a deletion screen of the Japanese syllabary for deleting the already registered 50 sounds, and the selection screen 33 is used as a deletion screen for deleting the name. Further, in the present embodiment, for simplification of description, the management of the phone book having each of the above-mentioned screens will be described. Various screens such as modes are used.

FIG. 4 shows a component program necessary for managing the telephone directory described in FIG. First, in step S1, a component program No. for selecting data is selected. 1 is required. In step S2 of the addition mode, the part program No. for adding data using the screen is displayed. 2 is a component program No. for setting the added data to the registered data in step S3. 4 is required. In step S4 of the delete mode, the part program No. for deleting data using the screen is displayed. Three
However, the deleted data is registered data 1 in step S5.
Component program No. 4 to be deleted from 5 is required. Similarly, in step S6 to step S10, each component program is required. In FIG. 3 as well, component programs required for each screen are shown in parentheses.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the relationship between each component program and each control data used for managing the telephone directory constructed in this embodiment. The menu control data 10 includes the name of the process of each business necessary for managing the telephone directory, for example, the name of the setting of the telephone directory or the output of the telephone directory, and the process in the process control data used for the processing of each business. No. Is set in association with the name of each business process. By dividing the menu and the flow of the processing of the individual business described below as in the present embodiment, it is possible to limit the number of menus that can be used by the menu control data even if the processing of the prepared business is the same. is there. In FIG. 5, when the phonebook setting (process No. 1) is selected from the menu screen, the process No. in the process control data linked to this menu is selected.
It shows that 1 is called.

The process control data 12 includes information in which process flows for various business processes are assembled. The processing control data 12 in FIG. 5 includes information such as a processing flow (processing No. 1) for setting the telephone directory. This information is the name of the component program to be called, and the screen number displayed there. , The jump position, etc. By freely assembling a general-purpose component program in this way, a processing program for each job is constructed, so that it is possible to freely construct the processing of the job according to the purpose. For example, in the setting of the telephone directory, it is possible to allow only the addition mode for adding data and disable the deletion mode for deleting data.

The component program control data 15 is specification data used in the component program 16. For example, the screen control data 152 is information about what data is to be displayed and how, that is, the coordinate position of the data to be displayed on the screen and the like. Contains information such as color. Also, the file format
The data 151 is format information for storing the registration data 14 in the storage means, and includes information such as a digit position, a digit number, and an attribute. Parts program control data 1 shown in FIG.
In No. 5, screen No. Item No. 3 Item 1 is the file format data item No. The fact that it is tied to 1 indicates that the data registered in the registration data 14 and having a length from the first digit to the tenth digit is displayed in yellow at the position of X coordinate = 5. Further, the registration data 14 includes telephone directory data, for example, information such as names and telephone numbers.

Next, the procedure for constructing the above-mentioned telephone directory management software by the apparatus of this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart for constructing business application software using the apparatus of this embodiment, and FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a procedure for constructing management software for a telephone directory.

To build the management software for the telephone directory, refer to FIG.
The component program control data is set using the setting tool 17 in step S20 shown in FIG. First, the file format data 151 is set. With this software, as shown in FIG. 7, the file layout of the phonetic order telephone directory data when storing the registration data 14 in the storage means is set. For example, item No. For the name data of No. 1, the item name is set to "item No. 1," the digit position is "1", the number of digits is "10", and the attribute is "character". Next, the screen control data 152 is set. With this software, information such as the input position on the screen is set. For example, screen NO. For the name selection screen of No. 3, set each screen on the screen so that the screen name is "Screen No. 3", the item is "Item No. 1", the X coordinate is "5", the color is "Yellow", etc. To do. Hereinafter, the master pull control data 153, the condition control data 154, the condition instruction control data 155, the form control data 156, and the edit control data 15 will be sequentially described as needed.
7 is set on the screen.

In step S21, the setting tool 17 is used to combine the component program and the component program control data set in advance as described above (only when necessary) to assemble the processing flow of the desired work. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the program N in step S1
o. For 1, the program name is “Program No.
1 ", the screen name is" Screen No. 1 ", the next layer mode jump destination is" 6 ", the addition mode jump destination is" 2 ", and the deletion mode jump destination is" 4 ". The control data set in this way is stored in the predetermined storage means as the processing control data 12.

In step S22, the process control data set in advance by using the setting tool 17 is registered in the menu. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the menu name is “phonebook setting” and the process No. Is set on the screen as "Process No. 1". As described above, by simply setting on the screen in what order each of the component programs 16 is used by using the preset component program control data 15,
It is possible to build management software for the phone book.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of the business application software constructed as described above. First, when the computer apparatus is turned on to start the business application software, the menu program 11 is first started and the menu screen 30 shown in FIG. 3 is displayed (step S41). Here, the desired work, for example, "setting of telephone directory" is selected on the menu screen 31 (step S42). Then, in step S43, the processing program 13 sets the processing number of the telephone directory setting processing flow. Start with the information of 1 and process control data 12
Various component programs instructed by the operator are activated by the processing flow stored in (step S44 to step S46).

For example, when the operator sets a new telephone number of Mr. Adachi in the telephone directory, the operator first selects "set telephone directory" on the menu screen 31 of FIG. Then, the part program No. 1 is activated, and the selection screen 32 is displayed. When "A name" is selected on the selection screen 32, a selection screen 33 is displayed. When the function key of the add mode is pressed and the add position is selected, the part program number. 2 is activated and the screen 35 of the addition mode is displayed. On this screen, Adachi's name,
Enter the phone number, gender, address, etc. When the input is completed, the operator instructs to register Mr. Adachi's data (by pressing the function key), and the component program No. 4 is activated, and Mr. Adachi's data is newly added to the registration data 14. When the processing of the required work is completed, this is judged in step S46, and step S41
Return to and the menu screen is displayed.

As a result of operating the business application software constructed as described above, if there is a malfunction or a point to be changed, the software can be easily modified by modifying the control data. Further, as a safety measure, a password may be obtained on the initial screen if necessary, and if the entered password is a predetermined password, the process may proceed to step S41 to perform the above process.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, for simplification of explanation, the case where the application software for managing the telephone directory is constructed has been described. However, if it is a work that can be standardized, another work such as a building is performed. Even in the case of maintenance management, equipment management, sales management, personnel management, financial management, salary management, etc., in the same manner as above, the component programs 16 are set in any order using the preset component program control data 15. Just set whether to use on the screen,
You can build these software.

According to the above-described embodiment, since the program production work is changed to the control data setting work, it is possible to develop the business application software without relying on a professional programmer. Further, since the business can be changed only by changing the control data, the software maintenance work associated with the change of the business becomes unnecessary.
Furthermore, new business application software can be developed simply by changing the control data.

Further, according to the present embodiment, unlike the conventional database, it is possible to reach the target data while selecting hierarchically organized data on the screen, which facilitates the operation. Become.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist thereof. For example, in the above embodiment, the case where the setting tool is provided as a means for changing each data of the control data has been described, but this can be omitted. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, since the management of the telephone directory has been described, the registered data has been described as the master type data that is managed in a hierarchical manner by providing each classification. However, for example, when managing a work report. Is a history type data that manages the data in order of date, and when managing data such as measured values, the registered data is managed in order of date, but old data is automatically deleted. It may be type data.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention, by virtue of the above-mentioned configuration, application software can be easily developed without relying on a professional programmer, and therefore, it is particularly stylized. It is possible to provide a software development support device suitable for developing business application software for processing a business.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a software development support device that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing in detail component program control data of the software development support device of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of management of a telephone directory constructed by the device of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 shows a component program required for managing the telephone directory described in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the relationship between each component program and each control data used for managing the telephone directory constructed in the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart for constructing business application software using the device of this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a procedure for constructing management software for a telephone directory.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing procedure of business application software constructed using the apparatus of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 menu control data 11 menu program 12 processing control data 13 processing program 14 registration data 15 parts program control data 16 parts program 17 setting tool 20 input device 21 output device 22 output device 151 file format data 152 screen control data 153 master pull Control data 154 Condition control data 155 Condition instruction control data 156 Form control data 157 Editing control data

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Shozo Abe 1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Nihon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (72) Inventor Noboru Ito 1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Issue Japan Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (72) Inventor Tatsuro Matsuoka 1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Nihon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (72) Hideo Arai 1-1-6 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo No. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A menu control data defining a task to be processed, a menu program for performing a menu-related process using the menu control data, and a process control data defining a processing flow of the task selected from the menu. A processing program for performing each business process using the processing control data, registered registration data to be managed, and component program control data in which specifications of how to use the registered data are set. A plurality of component programs that perform individual business processes of the business using the component program control data, and the processing control data selects a necessary one from the plurality of the component programs. A software development support device characterized in that the order of execution is defined. 2. The software development support apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for changing each data of the menu control data, the processing control data, and the component program control data. 3. The component program control data includes file format data defining a format such as a digit position and a data length of each item of the registration data, a coordinate position of data displayed on a screen, an output format, etc. Defined screen control data, master pull control data used when inputting while referring to master data or dictionary data,
Define the condition control data that defines the items that are the target of the search condition and the total condition, the condition instruction control data that defines the condition data such as the search condition and the total condition, and the coordinate position and output format of the data to be output on the standard form. 3. The software development support apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, which includes the form control data and the edit control data defining the editing conditions of the data. 4. The registration data is master type data,
4. The software development support device according to claim 1, which includes at least one of history type data and table type data.