METHOD FOR SUPPORTING UNDERSTANDING OF DESIGN PROCEDURE OF SOFTWARE DRAWING AND DEVICE THEREFOR

摘要

PURPOSE: To improve operation efficiency when an optional user reviews, maintains, and reuses an optional generated software drawing and to improve the quality of the software after the operation. ;CONSTITUTION: A design history information generation means 1 functions to generate design history information corresponding to the procedure of input operation when the software drawing is generated by a series of input operations of an input means 2 such as a mouse and then store it in a storage means. A design history information utilizing means 5 supports the understanding of the software drawing by displaying or printing the order relation of the input operations based on the design history information and further functions to alter the contents of the design history information and partially alter the mode wherein the order relation of the input operations is displayed or printed. Further, a Petri net is used as the representation format of the design history information.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO