Date of Award

Summer 2000

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Program/Concentration

Computer Engineering

Committee Director

James F. Leathrum, Jr.

Committee Member

Roland R. Mielke

Committee Member

John W. Stoughton

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.E55 A33

Abstract

There are many software processes and software development models that support the development of a software model prior to implementation. However, more often than not, these practices are not followed resulting in a lack of documentation of the intended functionality of the software. As a result, software often becomes a black box for later developers. Even a simple bug fix can turn into an exhaustive task for the developers, as they must attempt to infer the intended system behavior. New designers cannot make any changes to the software or extend the software behavior, as the underlying model within the software itself is unclear. An understanding of the underlying model helps both the designers and programmers to do their job quickly and effectively.

This thesis proposes a model to describe an existing undocumented software system developed in MODSIM III to facilitate future development efforts. The model provides a way to understand the underlying model of the software system by first documenting the software using flowchart constructs. The model also ensures designers and programmers make respective changes in the flowcharts before implementing the proposed changes. This helps document the recent architecture of the software process in the form of flowcharts. The model is described in this thesis and demonstrated on the port simulation PORTSIM.

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DOI

10.25777/m0ab-v555

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