CAREER: Representations, Tools, and Services for the Complete Integration of Software Development Documents

9734102大型软件项目会产生许多不同类型的文档，这些文档共同描述了项目的计划、实施和经验。在任何真实的软件系统中，确保这些文档彼此之间不具有严重冲突是一项关键任务，但是需要在不同类型的软件文档之间实现一定程度的集成，而这在当前的开发工具中是不可能实现的。该研究项目致力于识别将程序源代码和所有其他软件文档集成为无缝互连整体所需的文档表示、软件工具和用户界面服务。该项目正在产生一个原型开发环境，允许任意多媒体文档和程序源文件内的超链接以及用于管理和理解软件文档之间关系的附加工具。 这项研究很重要，因为它打破了目前存在于程序源代码和自然语言文档之间的障碍，这些文档可以激励、评估，这个CAREER项目的教育部分旨在通过外展和暑期课程吸引来自代表性不足群体的学生学习计算机科学，并加强该部门的软件课程通过新的研究生课程。 ***

9734102 Large software projects produce many documents of many different types that, together, describe the plans for, implementation of, and experience with the program. Ensuring that these documents do not have serious conflicts with each other is a critical task in any real software system, but requires a level of integration among the different types of software documents that is not possible with current development tools. This research project is working to identify the document representations, software tools, and user interface services that are required to integrate program source code and all other software documents into a seamless, interconnected whole. The project is producing a prototype development environment that allows arbitrary multimedia documentation and hyperlinks inside program source files and additional tools for managing and understanding the relationships between software documents. This research is significant because it is breaking down the barriers that currently exist between program source code and the natural language documents that motivate, evaluate, and explain it. The educational component of this CAREER project seeks to attract students from underrepresented groups to the study of computer science through outreach and a summer program curriculum and is also enhancing the department's software curriculum through new graduate course offerings. ***