Structured Analysis Tool Interface to the Strategic Defense Initiative Architecture Dataflow Modeling Technique.

摘要

A software interface was designed and implemented that extends the use of Structured Analysis (SA) Tool (SAtool) as a graphical front-end to the Strategic Defense Initiative Architecture Dataflow Modeling Technique (SADMT). SAtool is a computer-aided software engineering tool developed at the Air Force Institute of Technology that automates the requirements analysis phase of software development using a graphics editor. The tool automates two approaches for documenting software requirements analysis: SA diagrams and data dictionaries. SADMT is an Ada based simulation framework that enables users to model real-world architectures for simulation purposes. This research was accomplished in three phases. During the first phase, entity-relationship (E-R) models of each software package were developed. From these E-R models, relationships between the two software packages were identified and used to develop a mapping from SAtool to SADMT. The next phase of the research was the development of a software interface in Ada based on the mapping developed in the first phase. A combination of a top-down and a bottom-up approach was used in developing the software. Theses. (SDW)