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Overview
The knowledge-based approach to the automation of program understanding presented here plays an important role in nearly all software related tasks: it is vital to the development, maintenance and re-use activities, and is indispensable in improving the quality of software development. The approach described generates rigorous program documentation mechanically by combining and building on the strengths of a practical program decomposition method, the axiomatic correctness notation, and the knowledge-based analysis approach. Audience: Computer science students at the advanced graduate level and researchers and practitioners interested in software development, maintenance and re-use. Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering and logic programming, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.Synopsis
The knowledge-based approach to the automation of program understanding presented here plays an important role in nearly all software related tasks: it is vital to the development, maintenance and re-use activities, and is indispensable in improving the quality of software development. The approach described generates rigorous program documentation mechanically by combining and building on the strengths of a practical program decomposition method, the axiomatic correctness notation, and the knowledge-based analysis approach.
Audience: Computer science students at the advanced graduate level and researchers and practitioners interested in software development, maintenance and re-use. Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering and logic programming, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
Booknews
Offers an approach to the automation of program understanding that generates rigorous program documentation mechanically by combining and building on strengths of a practical method for decomposing programs, the axiomatic correctness notation, and knowledge-based analysis approaches. More specifically, it generates first order predicate logic annotations of a program's loops, then classifies the loops according to their complexity. Understanding a program is necessary for such tasks in software development, as code reviews, debugging, some testing approaches, and re-using code sequences. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)