JPH0467228A - Software specification producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the production efficiency of the software specifications by generating a virtual file out of the file groups having different file attributes for the control of the software design materials and producing the software specifications based on the virtual file and in an integrated environment. CONSTITUTION:A user inputs the specification production conditions that instruct an owner to collect one file group or the file groups for a certain data processor via a man-machine interface 2. Thus an information collecting part 7 refers to the individual files 5 to specify a file group suited to the input specification production conditions. Simultaneously, the part 7 registers the control information on the specified file group into a control file 8. The control data on this registered file 8 functions to relate the software design materials produced individually to a single virtual file. Thus the software specifications can be produced in an integrated environment.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding a software specification creation device that creates software specifications, the purpose of this invention is to enable efficient creation of software specifications under a unified environment. A software specification creation device that is equipped with a file group for managing software specifications created by a user, and that creates software specifications by editing the file information of the file group, and that is equipped with a tool compatible tool. an information collection unit that collects file management information for the file group specified by the specification creation conditions by referencing the file group when there is input information for the specification creation conditions; A management file that manages common management information in a single file, and files in a group of files are linked according to the management data of the management file, and a tool is launched via the driver to edit the group of files. By doing so, the controller is configured to include a control unit that creates a desired software specification.

(Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a software specification creation device for creating software specifications, and in particular, it is capable of efficiently creating software specifications under a unified environment regardless of file attributes. The present invention relates to a software specification creation device.

In order to create software specifications that serve as software design materials, various information such as document files, program configuration diagrams, and source program lists are required.

In recent years, the digitization of such various software design materials has progressed, and as a result, a wide variety of tools have come to be used to create them. From now on, the software specification creation devices that create software specifications based on these design materials will also be able to manage files created by these tools in a unified manner so that software specifications can be created efficiently. I need to go.

[Conventional technology]

The created software design materials will have different file attributes depending on the tools used to create them. From now on, conventional software specification creation devices have been configured to create software specifications by creating individual files using an independent management system for each file attribute.

When dealing with files on electronic storage media, you can either start the tool first and then select the file to be processed, or use a tool-driven method that first selects the file and processes the file. The software specification was created using a file-driven method in which the corresponding tool was launched based on the attributes of the software.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) However, in the former tool-driven method, since the tool can control multiple files, it has the advantage of being able to set information that spans between files, such as setting thread pages. However, there was a problem in that the attributes of the files that could be handled were limited.Also, although the latter file-driven method allows tools to be launched according to the attributes of individual files, there is no coordination between the tools. However, there was a problem in that it was not possible to set information that spanned between files.

From now on, when using a conventional software specification creation device, if you want to compile design materials with different file attributes as a software specification, you will have to take steps such as converting them into a unified file format or information between files. A problem arose in that a method of manual management had to be used to avoid inconsistencies. Furthermore, when automatically organizing multiple files, it is not possible to deal with exceptional processing, resulting in the problem that there are cases where the processing must be done manually at the final stage.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a software specification creation device that allows software specifications to be created efficiently under a unified environment regardless of file attributes. purpose.

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the basic configuration of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a software specification creation device equipped with the present invention, 2 is a man-machine interface serving as an input/output device of the software specification creation device 1, and 3 is a device developed in the software specification creation device 1 to implement the present invention. A software specification creation/editing function 4 is a plurality of tools deployed in the software specification creation device 1, which individually create software specification creation materials such as document files, program configuration diagrams, source program lists, etc. 5 is an individual file that manages each software design document created by the tool 4; 6 is a driver included in the software specification creation and editing function 3, which is compatible with the tool 4; 7 is an information collection unit provided in the software specification creation/editing function 3, which starts the corresponding tool 4;
8 is a management file that collects file management information specified by the specification creation conditions inputted from the man-machine interface 2, with reference to the information collection section 7. 9 is a control unit included in the software specification creation and editing function 3 that is commonly managed in a single file, and controls the driver 6 to edit the file data of the individual files 5. It is for creating specifications.

[Effect]

In the present invention, when a user inputs specification creation conditions through the man-machine interface 2, such as, for example, collecting a group of files with the same owner or collecting a group of files for a certain data processing device, By referring to the individual files 5, the information collection unit 7 identifies a file group that matches the input specification creation conditions, and registers the management information held by the identified file group in the management file 8. Process as you go. The management data of the management file 8 registered in this manner links individually created software design materials as a virtual single file.

When a user makes a request to create or edit a software specification according to the management data of this management file 8, the control unit 9 starts the corresponding tool 4 by starting the driver 6 specified by this management data. By doing so,
The software specification is created by controlling the creation and editing of file data of the individual file 5.

As described above, in the present invention, since a group of files created by individual tools 4 are linked together using a management file 8 to create a software specification, it is possible to create software specifications based on a unified environment. This makes it possible to create software specifications more efficiently.

[Example〕 Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail according to examples.

FIG. 2 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the same parts as those explained in FIG. 1 are indicated by the same symbols. 5a is expanded to an individual file 5, and the tool 4
A file information management section 5b that manages file management information that depends on the file information is developed into individual files 5 and stores file management information that is common to the processing system, such as file names, owned note names, file locations, file attributes, etc. A file information management unit 10 is an end user.

Tool 4 included in the software specification creation device l is:
Existing tools for creating and editing software design materials are used, such as a dedicated toolkit for creating module configuration diagrams as shown in Figure 4, and area formats as shown in Figure 5. An editor such as a word processor for creating a file, a tool 4 for creating a flowchart according to an easy-to-understand description method as shown in FIG. I will do it.

As explained in FIG. 1, the management file 8 manages the file management information of the file information management units 5a + 5b collected by the information collection unit 7 according to the user's specifications, and can be referenced by the user. Manage information such as file name, file type, number of pages, first page number, last page number, file ownership note name, version number, last updated date and time, last updated note name, etc. At the same time, the actual file location, which is information that cannot be referenced by the user, and the driver name/tool name required for updating, etc., are managed.

In the software specification creation device 1 of the present invention configured as described above, the end user 10 instructs creation of a virtual file by specifying management information in the file information management section 5b. That is, for example, the owner instructs the creation of a virtual file consisting of the same file group. When such an input operation is detected, the information collection unit 7 refers to the management information of the file information management unit 5b to identify the file group having the designated selection key, and also to specify the file group of the specified file group. By registering file management information in the management file 8, processing is performed to generate virtual files.

Through this registration process, the management file 8 manages the processing order of files specified by the end user 10 according to the list structure as shown in FIG. Actual file name, page number, owned note name, last updated date and time, etc.
Information that the end user 10 cannot refer to, such as file attributes of those files and parameter information for the corresponding driver 6, is managed hierarchically.

In this way, when the file management information of the file group having the selection key designated by the end user 10 is registered in the management file 8, the end user 1o performs an input operation to edit the arrangement order of this file management information. Therefore, when the control unit 9 detects such an input operation, it executes the editing process of the created virtual file by executing the sorting process of the management data of the management file 8 according to the specification. We will process it accordingly.

According to this editing function, the end user 10 can set exceptional execution conditions and can efficiently create a desired software specification.

Next, the end user 10 performs an input operation to manually edit the file data stored in the individual file 5 according to the virtual file recognized by the file group linked via the management data of the management file 8. conduct. When the control unit 9 detects this input operation, it starts up the driver 6 associated with the file data for which editing is specified, thereby starting up the tool 4 that executes the editing process for the file data. Then, the control unit 9
According to the tool 4 activated in this way, the desired software specifications are created by executing the editing process of the file data requested by the end user IO.

Then, when the control unit 9 receives a request from the end user 10 to output the edited software specification by specifying the continuous page allocated to the management data of the management file 8,
The real file for which the output is requested is determined according to the management data, the driver 6 associated with the determined real file is started, and this driver 6 generates a parameter to be passed to the tool 4 from the management data and sends it to the tool 4. We will notify you. According to this process, the control unit 9 controls the software specification, which is constructed from a group of files that are linked via the management data of the management file 8, to be output as continuous page images.

In this way, by using the present invention, it becomes possible to efficiently create software specifications under a unified environment.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, one virtual file is generated from a group of files with different file attributes that manage software design materials, and software specifications are created in a unified environment according to this virtual file. This makes it possible to efficiently create software specifications. Furthermore, since it is possible to set exceptional processing procedures when creating software specifications, detailed creation processing becomes possible. Moreover, since existing tools and files can be used as is, the number of implementations can be kept low.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a diagram of the principle configuration of the present invention, Figure 2 is an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram of the data structure of management data of a management file, Figures 4, 5, and 6 are FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of software design materials created by the tool. In the figure, l is a software specification creation device, 2 is a man-machine interface, 3 is a software specification creation and editing function, 4 is a tool, 5 is an individual file, 58 and 5b are file information management units, 6 is a driver, and 7 is the information gathering department;
8 is a management file, and 9 is a control section.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A software specification creation device that is equipped with a group of files for managing software specifications created using different tools, and that creates a software specification by editing the file information of the file group, comprising the tools mentioned above. When the driver (6) starts the above tool in preparation for the response and input information of specification creation conditions is received from the input device,
By referring to the above file group, the information collection unit (7) collects the file management information of the file group specified by the specification creation conditions, and the file management information collected by the information collection unit (7) is simply The tool is activated via the driver (6) while coordinating the files of the file group according to the management file (8) that is commonly managed in one file and the management data of the management file (8). A software specification creation device comprising: a control unit (9) that creates a desired software specification by editing the above-mentioned file group. (2) In the software specification creation device according to claim (1), when an item key is input from the input device, the control unit (9) changes the management order of the management data of the management file according to the item key. A software specification creation device characterized by processing as follows. (3) In the software specification creation device according to claim (1) or (2), the control unit (9), when receiving an output request from the input device,
By reading the management data of the page range with the output request from the management file, determining the actual file with the output request according to the management data, and starting the tool associated with the actual file, A software specification creation device characterized by processing a constructed software specification so as to output it as a continuous page image.