Empirical Evaluation of Multiparadigm Software Development

多范式软件开发的实证评估

• 批准号: 9111507
• 负责人: Steven Reiss
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-15 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9111507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Empirical; Evaluation; Multiparadigm; Software; Development

During software development, programmers employ a range of different program representations, including pseudocode, data flow diagrams, finite-state automata, control flow charts, and many others. Programmers may also create their own custom representations or languages to express their particular approach to a problem. Conventional development environments force programmers to translate these different paradigms into a single textual representation that the computer can understand, and to translate between this representation and their conceptualizations during coding, debugging, and maintenance. Multiparadigm development environments offer the opportunity for programmers to work directly with their conceptualizations, to work with a program using whatever representation is most natural; such environments eliminate the need to perform mental translations between programmer concepts and executable code. The proposed research is to test the validity of multiparadigm programming by designing experiments to answer the following kinds of questions: Does it make programs easier to design or code? Does it make programs or designs easier to understand? Does it simplify the process of enhancing existing programs to increase their functionality or their performance? Does it make it easier for programmers to track down and eliminate bugs? Do software developers prefer it?

在软件开发过程中，程序员使用一系列不同的程序表示，包括伪代码、数据流程图、有限状态自动机、控制流程图等。程序员也可以创建他们自己的自定义表示或语言来表达他们解决问题的特定方法。传统的开发环境迫使程序员将这些不同的范式转换为计算机可以理解的单一文本表示，并在编码、调试和维护期间在这种表示和它们的概念化之间进行转换。多范式开发环境为程序员提供了直接处理其概念化的机会，可以使用任何最自然的表示来处理程序；这样的环境消除了在程序员概念和可执行代码之间进行心理转换的需要。提出的研究是通过设计实验来回答以下问题来测试多范式编程的有效性：它是否使程序更容易设计或编码？它是否使程序或设计更容易理解？它是否简化了增强现有程序以增加其功能或性能的过程？它是否使程序员更容易追踪和消除bug ？软件开发人员更喜欢它吗？