Development of a Software Design and Documentation Support System

我们的目标是研究如何支持设计和/或文档活动。1.将模块化设计方法应用于几个真实的问题，并得出了几个应用模块化设计方法的观察结果.应促进模块的再利用;然而，据观察，模块没有再利用。原因之一是相关的文件是穷人和不可理解的。为了缓解这种情况，我们追求良好的文件条件。我们发现另一个问题，即使是好的文档也没有帮助，部分原因是它们的体积。3.因此，它试图建立一个专家系统，以帮助找到如何使用合适的模块和/或它们的正确用法。分析了设计人员提供的知识在实现知识化方面的几个难点.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评估编辑器的设计。我们提出了几种指向方法，包括一个非线性鼠标用于指向CRT显示器上的位置。这些方法通过一个实验系统进行了评价，我们希望能继续和扩展我们的研究。

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.