USING THE WEB FOR SOFTWARE ANNOTATIONS
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
- Vol. 9 (1) , 55-72
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s021819409900005x
Abstract
The purpose of software redocumention is to recover comprehension of software and to record it for future use. This paper describes Partitioned Annotations of Software (PAS), where comprehension is recorded in hypertext and browsed by web browsers. The annotations for each code component are partitioned in order to keep different explanations separate, leverage the advantages of hypertext, and better support the processes of program comprehension. The paper describes a tool that parses code and generates PAS skeletons. The paper also describes a process of incremental redocumentation where comprehension of software is recorded incrementally during normal maintenance. The experience with PAS in an industrial project is summarized.Keywords
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