NDLI: PUMP: a program understanding tool for MODSIM programs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bhullar, A.S. Birta, L.G.
Copyright Year	2000
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada (Bhullar, A.S.)
Abstract	Automated program understanding tools have the potential to make important contributions to reducing the very substantial costs of program maintenance. We formulate a particular approach to program understanding within the context of the object-oriented simulation language, MODSIM. The software tool that has been developed is called PUMP (Program Understanding of MODSIM Programs). The input to this tool is the syntactically correct MODSIM program code for a simulation project which typically is distributed over several files. The main presentation of information about the program is via a user interface that is organized along hierarchical lines that correspond to the organizational structure of MODSIM programs. The hierarchical approach permits examination of program features in increasing levels of detail. The main thrust of the analysis is to identify entity types (e.g., objects, methods, variables) used in the program together with their interrelationships. The key design aspects of PUMP are outlined in the paper and an overview of the user interface is presented. Emphasis is given to the mechanisms specifically developed for handling the object-oriented features of MODSIM.
Starting Page	121
Ending Page	130
File Size	112176
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769505988
ISSN	1080241X
DOI	10.1109/SIMSYM.2000.844908
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2000-04-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software maintenance Software systems Application software Costs Programming profession Documentation Information technology Electrical capacitance tomography Software engineering Object oriented programming
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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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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