Diagrammatic method of testing program

Details Diagrammatic method of testing program Diagrammatic method of testing program

1985-10-15

1988-03-08

Smith, Jerry

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364200, 364300, G06F 1100

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ABSTRACT:
A diagrammatic method is disclosed of testing a program in a data processing system equipped with a display terminal for interactive operations. Program specification inputs are given in a diagrammatic form through interactive operations and are edited into diagrammatic specifications. Those diagrammatic specifications are then translated into a source program described in, for example, FORTRAN, in which are interspersed comment statements each of which indicates a diagrammatic specification corresponding to the associated statement of the source program. In the course of a test the diagrammatic specification corresponding to a process under execution is retrieved and displayed according to a comment statement, and the portions corresponding to executed operations are displayed distinctively, for example, in a special color, while the resultant values of variables are also displayed.

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patent: 4315315 (1982-02-01), Kossiakoff
patent: 4455619 (1984-06-01), Masui
patent: 4533997 (1985-08-01), Furgerson
L. L. Zimmerman, "On-Line Program Debugging-A Graphic Approach", Computers & Automation, 11/1967, pp. 30, 31, 34.

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