JPH09282477A - Specification generating method and its system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a specification of high readability and maintain ability by actually displaying a picture and a slip, etc., on a display device and generating specification information with picture data corresponding to the displayed picture included in specification information. SOLUTION: Picture definition information 1 is defined at the time of developing an application system and stores definition information such as the picture, the slip displayed at the time of executing the application system. A picture display part 2 refers to information 1 and displays the picture, the slip, etc., on the display. A picture data conversion part 3 obtains the picture displayed on the display, converts it into picture data and stores it in a picture managing table 4. A specification generation part 5 fetches picture data as a specification by referring to information 1 and the table 4 and generates the specification including picture data to generate the specification with picture data 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and system for generating specifications, and more particularly to a method and system for generating specifications including image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional technique related to specification generation is, for example, a system design generation device and method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 143302/1993, in which a system generation file for system design is input as graphic data and updated. Sometimes, the purpose is to display the setting information of all system-generated files as graphic data so as to easily provide the system device with the configuration of the entire system.

Further, in the general technique for generating specifications, the specifications are generated by using the definition information that can be converted into code data such as the coordinate position of the screen or the form, the attribute and the length as the system setting information.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention does not generate specifications by using only definition information that can be converted into code data, such as coordinate positions of screens and forms, attributes and lengths, as system setting information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for generating a specification sheet with high readability and maintainability by incorporating screen data in which a sheet or a form is actually displayed on a display device as image data into the specification sheet.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the specification generation method of the present invention displays a screen defined at the time of system development on a display device and displays the screen displayed on the display device as an image. The data is converted into data, the screen definition information defined at the time of system development is referred to, the screen specification information is generated, and the specification information including the image data corresponding to the screen is generated.

The specification generation system of the present invention is a system equipped with a program for executing the above-mentioned specification generation method.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a system equipped with a specification generation method of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block showing an embodiment of the specification generation system of the present invention.

The screen definition information 1 is information defined during application system development and stores definition information such as screens and forms displayed when the application system executes.

The screen display unit 2 refers to the screen definition information 1 to display the screen on the display device, and the image data conversion unit 3
Acquires the screen displayed on the display device, converts it into image data and stores it in the image data management table 4, and the specification generation unit 5 refers to the screen definition information 1 and the image data management table 4 to convert the image data. As a specification, a specification including the captured image data is generated, and a specification 6 with image data is generated.

As is apparent from the figure, the screen display unit 2, the image data conversion unit 3, and the specification generation unit 5 indicate processing, and the screen definition information 1, the image data management table 4, and the image data attached specification 6 are files. (Also called a table).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall hardware configuration of the specification generation system in FIG.

The input / output device 8 inputs data and displays various information. The processor 9 executes the processing in FIG. 1 based on the program. The storage device 70 stores various tables such as the image data management table 40 in FIG. 1 and various programs. Further, the storage device 70
Is a working area 71 which is a memory for executing each process of the processor 9, a screen definition information storage area 10, a screen display section storage area 20, and an image data conversion section storage area 3.
0, an image data management table storage area 40, a specification generation unit storage area 50, and a specification generation unit storage area 60.

Each program stored in the storage device 70 is executed by the processor 9. At the time of execution, the input / output device 8 is used as necessary.

FIG. 3 is an example of screen definition information defined during system development. The screen definition information includes items such as a screen name 11, an object name 12, an attribute 13, a display position 14, and an action 15. Screen name 11
Represents the name of the screen, the object name 12 represents the name given to the component defined on the screen, the attribute 13 represents what the component is, and the display position 14 is the position where the component is displayed. The action 15 represents the type of operation accepted by the pointing device or the like. The screen definition information includes not only the items 11 to 15 but also information such as the display size and color of the parts, but they are omitted in this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an example of a screen displayed on the display device by the screen display unit 2 of FIG. This shows an example in which the screen is displayed on the window system installed in the computer. Further, this screen is a screen displayed on the window system based on the screen definition information 1 shown in FIG.

The image data conversion unit 3 in FIG. 1 converts the screen displayed on the display device by the screen display unit 2 into image data as shown in FIG. 4, and associates the name of the displayed screen with the associated image data. Stored in the management table 4. Image data includes Bitmap Data and JPEG (Joint Photographic)
There is data in the Experts Group) format. Such conversion into image data can be easily realized by a conventional technique.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the image data management table 4 created by the image data converter 3. The image data management table 4 is composed of a screen name 41 and a file name 42. The screen name 41 represents the identification name of the screen, and the file name 42 represents the identification name of the file storing the image data.

FIG. 6 is a PAD (Problem Analysis Diagram) showing the processing of the specification generation unit 5 in FIG.

The specification generation process 5 describes definition information based on the screen definition information 1 defined during system development, and further,
It shows a process of taking in image data of a corresponding screen to a specification and generating a specification 6 with image data.

This process will be described below with reference to the PAD diagram.

Referring to the screen name 11 of the screen definition information 1, the following processing is performed until the reading of all screen names in the same screen name unit is completed (step 51).

First, the screen name 1 acquired in step 51
The file name 42 of the corresponding image data from 1 is acquired from the image data management table 4, the image data is held, and the corresponding screen name 41 and the associated specification are stored in the image data attached specification 6 (step 52).

Next, referring to the screen definition information 1, an object name 12 corresponding to the corresponding screen name 11 and an attribute 1
3, the definition information of the screen such as the display position 14 and the action 15 is acquired and stored in the image data attached specification 6 as the specification of the corresponding screen (step 53).

Next, the processing target is moved to the next screen name 51 (step 54).

As shown in FIG.
Screen definition information 1 shown in FIG. 6 and the image data management table 4 shown in FIG.
Is generated. Further, not only the definition information of the screen but also other system definition information such as the function name to be used and the processing content can be taken in as the specifications easily by the conventional technology for creating specifications.

7 and 8 show examples of specifications with image data generated by the various processes.

[0028]

According to the present invention, the screen actually displayed on the display device is incorporated into the specifications, so that the readability and maintainability are improved as compared with the specifications created by the conventional specification creating system. To do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an entire specification system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an overall hardware configuration of a specification generation system.

FIG. 3 is an example of information about screen definitions created during system development.

FIG. 4 is a display example of a screen on a display device (input / output device 8).

5 is an example of an image data management table generated by image data conversion processing 3. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a specification generation unit 5;

FIG. 7 is an example of a specification including image data generated by a specification generation unit 5.

FIG. 8 is an example of a specification including image data generated by a specification generation unit 5.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Screen definition information, 2 ... Screen display part, 3 ...
Image data conversion unit, 4 ... Image data management table, 5 ...
Specification generation unit, 6 ... Specification with image data.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A method of generating a specification document including specification information of a screen implemented by a computer processing system, displaying the screen on a display device, converting the screen into image data, and referring to the definition information of the screen. Then, there is provided a method of generating specification information of the screen, and generating specification information in which the image data corresponding to the screen is included in the specification information. 2. A processing system for generating a specification document including specification information of a screen implemented by a computer processing system, means for displaying the screen on a display device, means for converting the screen into image data, and the screen The specification generation system comprising: means for generating specification information of the screen by referring to definition information of 1 .; and means for generating specification information including the image data corresponding to the screen in the specification information.