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10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'03)
p. 144
Developing Relational Navigation to Effectively Understand Software
Daniel Jarrott, The University of Queensland
Anthony MacDonald, The University of Queensland
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Effective comprehension of complex software systems requires
understanding of both the individual documents that
represent software and the complex relationships that exist
within and between documents. Relationships of all
kinds play a vital role in a software engineer's comprehension
of, and navigation within and between, software
documents. User-determined relationships have the additional
role of enabling the engineer to create and maintain
relational documentation that cannot be generated
by tools or derived from other relationships. In this paper,
we argue that for a software development environment
to effectively support the understanding of complex software
systems, relational navigation must be supported at
both the document-focused (intra-document) and relation-focused
(inter-document) levels. The need for a relation-focused
approach is highlighted by an evaluation of an
existing document-focused relational interface. This paper
closes with the requirements for a relation-focused approach
to relational navigation. These requirements focus
on the user's perspective when interacting with a collection
of related documents. This work defines the requirements
for a software development environment that effectively supports
the understanding of the software documents and relationships
that define a complex software system.
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Citation:
Daniel Jarrott, Anthony MacDonald,
"Developing Relational Navigation to Effectively Understand Software,"
apsec,
p. 144,
10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'03),
2003
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