NDLI: An editor for documentation in π-system to support software development and maintenance

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Nakamoto, Yukikazu Hori, Masato Hagihara, Kenichi Iwamoto, Tadahiro Tokura, Nobuki
Abstract	A lot of information necessary to maintain a software tends to be lost in conventional documentation. One of the leading causes is considered that the ideas of developers which maintainers will want to know later are not fixed in any documents while the ideas are fresh. To remove the cause, we propose a new description form, called a frame, and construct a system called π, to support a software through its lifetime. This system gathers all the information with the frames, stores it in a database and provides the various services with respect to programming and documentation. This paper describes the frames and a subsystem, called π-editor, which provides a user friendly interface to make it easy to gather essential information. By using frames, (1) the associated information around one programming concept can be gathered at one time and (2) lack of necessary information hardly arises. The editor has the distinguished features such as (1) a structure-oriented display editor, (2) facilities to display selective information, provide helpful user guides, and check input errors immediately.
Starting Page	330
Ending Page	339
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02705257
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1982-09-13
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

An editor for documentation in π-system to support software development and maintenance