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| D. Lorge Parnas, J. Madey, M. Iglewski, "Precise Documentation of Well-Structured Programs," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 948-976, December, 1994. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/32.368133, author = {D. Lorge Parnas and J. Madey and M. Iglewski}, title = {Precise Documentation of Well-Structured Programs}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {20}, number = {12}, issn = {0098-5589}, year = {1994}, pages = {948-976}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/32.368133}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering TI - Precise Documentation of Well-Structured Programs IS - 12 SN - 0098-5589 SP948 EP976 EPD - 948-976 A1 - D. Lorge Parnas, A1 - J. Madey, A1 - M. Iglewski, PY - 1994 KW - structured programming; system documentation; program verification; formal specification; software maintenance; precise documentation; well-structured programs; displays; lexicon; index; program fragments; program correctness; specification; software engineering; reference document; software inspection; software maintenance; functional approach; program documentation; program verification; tabular form VL - 20 JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ER - | |||
Describes a new form of program documentation that is precise, systematic and readable. This documentation comprises a set of displays supplemented by a lexicon and an index. Each display presents a program fragment in such a way that its correctness can be examined without looking at any other display. Each display has three parts: (1) the specification of the program presented in the display, (2) the program itself, and (3) the specifications of programs invoked by this program. The displays are intended to be used by software engineers as a reference document during inspection and maintenance. This paper also introduces a specification technique that is a refinement of H.D. Mills's (1975) functional approach to program documentation and verification; programs are specified and described in tabular form.
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