Airi Salminen, Jussi Koskinen & Jukka Paakki

HyperSoft: An environment for hypertextual software maintenance

Proceedings of the Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research (NWPER’94). Magnusson, B., Hedin, G. & Minör, S. (eds.). LU-CS-TR: 94-127, pages: 25-37. Lund, Sweden: Lund University, 1994.

Abstract

HyperSoft: an environment for program maintenance is introduced. In HyperSoft, program text is viewed as a two-level structure consisting of a static, hierarchic, syntactic structure and a dynamic access structure. HyperSoft is directed to supporting program comprehension by providing a maintainer with capabilities to view programs as hypertext and to dynamically (during the session) specify the required access structures. The access structures most notably assist systematic program maintenance by providing a flexible navigation over related program parts. In this paper the emphasis is laid on the architectural and technical aspects of the environment.

Updated: Sept. 27, 2004, Aug. 11, 2010 by Jussi Koskinen.