Development of a Software Design and Documentation Support System

我们的目标是调查如何支持设计和/或文档活动1。将模块化设计方法应用于几个实际问题，并得出了利用模块化设计方法的几点注意事项。应促进模块的重复使用；然而，可以观察到，模块没有被重复使用。其中一个原因是相关的文件很差，不容易理解。为了缓解这一问题，我们追求良好的单据条件。我们发现另一个问题是，即使是好的文件也没有帮助，部分原因是它们的数量。因此，试图建立一个专家系统来帮助找到如何使用合适的模块和/或它们的正确用法。观察到了积累设计师提供的知识的几个困难。作为文本编辑器设计的辅助工具，我们研究了如何在设计阶段对编辑器的设计进行评估。我们提出了几种指向方法，包括使用非线性鼠标来指向CRT显示器上的位置。通过实验系统对这些方法进行了评价。我们希望继续和扩大我们的研究。

Our aim is to investigate how to supprot design and/or documentation activities.1. Modular design method is applied to several real problems and several observations are derived to utilize modular design method.2. The re-usage of modules should be promoted; however, it is observed that modules are not re-used. One of reasons is that the associated documentations are poor and not understandable. To alleviate this, we pursuit conditions of good documents. We found another problem that even good documents are not helpful, partly because of their volumes.3. Hence, it is tried to build an expert system to help to find how to use suitable modules and/or their proper usages. Several difficulties to accumylate knowledge supplied by designers are observed.4. As an aid of text editer design, we investigated how can we evaluate the design of the editer in the design phase.5. We propose several pointing methods including a non-linear mouse used to point the position on the CRT display. These methods are evaluated by using an exeperimental system.We hope to continue and extend our study further.