Program development support system, program development support method and the program thereof

• US 20060107191A1
• Filed: 01/13/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Shibuya, Hiroji, Hirai, Chiaki, Kimura, Takahisa, Ayukawa, Erika, Shimabukuro, Jun, Mougi, Masao, Hirooka, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US11/033,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20060107191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/796
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3616 using software metrics

Abstract

Development of a program is supported by presenting importance of each part of the program. A program development support system comprises: a metrics information storage part 32 that stores metrics information for each part of the program, with the metrics information indicating complexity of the part in question in relation to other parts of the program; a failure information storage means 34 that stores failure information for each failure occurring in the program, with said failure information indicating a corrected part of the program to cope with the failure and influence of the failure on a program user; a failure correction difficulty analysis part 23 and an importance determination part 24 that determine importance of each part of the program, using the complexity indicated by the metrics information of the part in question and the influence indicated by the failure information of each failure against which the part in question is to be corrected as a countermeasure, with the importance indicating a size of program development man-hours to be allocated to the part in question; and an input/output part 1 that outputs the determined importance of each part of the program.

Claims

1. A program development support system, which supports development of a program, comprising:

a metrics information storing means that stores metrics information for each part of the program, said metrics information indicating complexity of said part in relation to other parts of the program;

a failure information storing means that stores failure information for each failure occurring in said program, said failure information indicating a corrected part of the program to cope with the failure and influence of the failure on a program user;

an operation means that determines importance of each part of the program, using the complexity indicated by the metrics information of the part in question and the influence indicated by the failure information of each failure against which said part is to be corrected as a countermeasure, said importance indicating a size of program development man-hours to be allocated to said part; and

an importance output means that outputs the importance determined by said operation means for each part of the program.

2. A program development support system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a source program input means into which a source program is inputted;

a source program storing means that stores said source program inputted into said source program input means; and

a source program analysis means that searches, with respect to each part of the source program stored in said source program storing means, for other program parts referred to by said part in question and other program parts referring to the part in question, determines the complexity of the part in question according to a number of said other program parts, and stores the metrics information of the part in question into said metrics information storing means.

3. A program development support system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information are inputted;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

4. A program development support system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

5. A program development support system according to claim 1, wherein:

said operation means comprises;

a failure correction difficulty calculation means that calculates, for each failure whose failure information is stored in said failure information storing means, failure correction difficulty according to complexity indicated by said metrics information of each part (of said program) corrected to cope with the failure in question; and

an importance determination means that determines, for each part (of said program) whose metrics information is stored in said metrics information storing means, importance of the part in question, based on the complexity indicated by the metrics information of said part, the failure correction difficulty of each failure against which the part in question has been corrected as a countermeasure, and the influence indicated by said failure information.

6. A program development support system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a source program input means into which a source program is inputted;

a source program storing means that stores said source program inputted into said source program input means; and

a source program analysis means that searches, with respect to each part of the source program stored in said source program storing means, for other program parts referred to by said part in question and other program parts referring to the part in question, determines the complexity of the part in question according to a number of said program parts, and stores the metrics information of the part in question into said metrics information storing means.

7. A program development support system according to claim 5, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information are inputted;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

8. A program development support system according to claim 6, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

9. A program development support system according to claim 5, wherein:

said failure correction difficulty calculation means calculates the failure correction difficulty by changing a weight of the complexity indicated by the metrics information for each part (of said program) corrected to cope with a failure, based on whether the part in question is a function or a table.

10. A program development support system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a source program input means into which a source program is inputted;

a source program storing means that stores said source program inputted into said source program input means; and

a source program analysis means that searches, with respect to each part of the source program stored in said source program storing means, for other program parts referred to by said part in question and other program parts referring to the part in question, determines the complexity of the part in question according to a number of said program parts, and stores the metrics information of the part in question into said metrics information storing means.

11. A program development support system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information are inputted;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

12. A program development support system according to claim 10, further comprising:

a document input means into which failure report document data including failure information are inputted;

a failure report document data storing means that stores the failure report document data inputted into said document input means; and

a document analysis means that extracts, for each failure whose failure report document data are stored in said failure report document data storing means, the failure information from said failure report document data of the failure in question, and stores the extracted failure information in association with said failure into said failure information storing means.

13. A program development support method, in which a computer supports development of a program, wherein:

a storage unit of said computer stores metrics information for each part of the program and failure information for each failure occurring in said program, with said metrics information indicating complexity of said part in relation to other parts of the program, and said failure information indicating a corrected part of the program to cope with the failure and influence of the failure on a program user; and

an operation unit of said computer executes;

a step of determining importance of each part of the program, using the complexity indicated by the metrics information of the part in question and the influence indicated by the failure information of each failure against which said part is to be corrected as a countermeasure, said importance indicating a size of program development man-hours to be allocated to said part; and

a step of outputting the determined importance of each part of the program through an output unit of said computer.

14. A program that is readable for a computer and supports development of a program, wherein:

a storage unit of said computer stores metrics information for each part of the program as a development support object (referred to the development support object program) and stores failure information for each failure occurring in said development support object program, with said metrics information indicating complexity of said part in relation to other parts of the development support object program, and said failure information indicating a corrected part of said program to cope with the failure and influence of the failure on a program user; and

said program readable for said computer makes said computer function;

as an operation means that determines importance of each part of the program, using the complexity indicated by the metrics information of the part in question and the influence indicated by the failure information of each failure against which said part is to be corrected as a countermeasure, said importance indicating a size of program development man-hours to be allocated to said part, and

as an importance output means that outputs the importance determined by said operation means for each part of the program, through an output unit of said computer.