A graphical development and debugging environment for parallel programs

To provide high-level graphical support for PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) based program development, a complex programming environment (GRADE) is being developed. GRADE currently provides tools to construct, execute, debug, monitor and visualize message-passing parallel programs. It offers a high-level graphical programming abstraction mechanism to construct parallel applications by introducing a new graphical language called GRAPNEL. GRADE also provides the programmer with the same graphical user interface during the program design and debugging stages. A distributed debugging engine (DDBG) assists the user in debugging GRAPNEL programs on distributed memory computer architectures. Tape/PVM and PROVE support the performance monitoring and visualization of parallel programs developed in the GRADE environment.     

An integrated verification and testing environment

A verification and testing environment that includes static analysis, symbolic execution, and dynamic analysis capabilities is presented. Tool integration and co-operation are promoted through use of an intermediate program representation and a system data manager. A substantial user interface aids application of the tools. Their use is guided by a verification and testing methodology on which the system's design is based. The environment has been engineered to support the production of flight control software written in HAL/S. The environment itself is written in Pascal and is designed to be portable. Several development experiences are described. The environment demonstrates that a strong, unified verification and testing environment can be built; it serves as a basis for future investigations.     

PIGS—A system for programming with interactive graphical support

This paper describes an implementation of a system for programming using structured charts with interactive graphical support. It provides a graphical editor for the user to interactively build and edit programs using Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams (NSD)¹ as the structured control constructs of logic flow. It can interpret a program in NSD chart form, and the execution sequence of the NSD is displayed at a graphical terminal. On-line debugging and testing facilities are available which allow the user to examine and modify the program under execution. The system has been designed with the aim of supporting the development, debugging, testing, documentation and maintenance of programs in the same environment.     

Completing the job interface design

HyperNews, a user-interface management system that lets a user separate application and interface design to link a new interface to an old application with very little programming, is described. Much of a HyperNews interface can be designed without writing any code at all. With direct manipulation, a user can design a graphical user interface simply by creating, moving, and resizing objects on the screen. Experimentation with different interface styles is possible with less effort in HyperNews compared to specification languages and tool kits, and immediate feedback can result in extremely fast development. The ways HyperNews provides communication capabilities among all HyperNews objects (such as control objects, cards, backgrounds, and stacks) and links interfaces to internal applications, which were developed within HyperNews, to external applications, or to existing applications developed without HyperNews are discussed     

CRITON: A Hypermedia Design Tool

The WWW has turned into a development and run-time environment for large-scale and complex applications. Such sophisticated applications are being deployed in increasing numbers without having been developed according to appropriate methodologies, tools and quality standards. The reason is not only that the hypermedia industry resists to utilize formal methods, but also that these methods and corresponding tools are very few and of dubious standards. The consequence is that the hypermedia applications being developed are of poor functionality and lack qualities such as modifiability, usability and maintainability. Especially the design phase is one of the phases that lack sufficient support from methods and CASE tools. This paper presents CRITON, a cross platform tool, built to support a hypermedia design method within an integrated environment. CRITON manages all three aspects of hypermedia design: conceptual design, navigational design and graphical user interface design, utilizing well-established theories and practices from software as well as hypermedia engineering. It employs these designs to generate a preliminary, exemplary form of the hypermedia application for the purpose of assessing the designs before the implementation phase.     

基于嵌入式系统的Motif图形界面开发技术研究

针对应用于国防领域的国内某特种车辆对显控系统的具体功能需求,讨论了在嵌入式实时操作系统vxWorks的基础上利用Motif库作为工具开发图形用户界面的相关技术。从建立基于Tornado的嵌入式应用软件交叉开发环境入手,总结出了X Window／Motif程序接口及其代码的调试框架,研究了在嵌入式图形用户界面实际开发过程中所遇到的具体技术难题,并通过解决这些技术问题,最终实现了对VxWorks在图形用户界面开发方面的功能扩展。     

Graphics interface tool development in a problem solving environment

A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is an integrated system of application tools that support the solution of a given problem, or a set of related problems. Paramount in the development of such environments is the design, specification and integration of user interface tools that communicate between the application tools of the system and the user. Typically these interactions are object oriented and involve the interaction with tool parameters, which in many applications (CAD/ CAM, Imaging Systems, Image Processing), are represented by graphical data. This paper describes a user-interface tool development system in which both textual and graphical display, and interaction techniques are integrated under a single model. This allows the user to interact with tool parameters in either graphical or textual modes, and to have the parameters displayed in the manner most relevant to the problem set.     

Visualizing trace of Java collection APIs by dynamic bytecode instrumentation

Object-oriented languages are widely used in software development to help the developer in using dynamic data structures which evolve during program execution. However, the task of program comprehension and performance analysis necessitates the understanding of data structures used in a program. Particularly, in understanding which application programming interface (API) objects are used during runtime of a program. The objective of this work is to give a compact view of the complete program code information at a single glance and to provide the user with an interactive environment to explore details of a given program. This work presents a novel interactive visualization tool for collection framework usage, in a Java program, based on hierarchical treemap. A given program is instrumented during execution time and data recorded into a log file. The log file is then converted to extensible markup language (XML)-based tree format which proceeds to the visualization component. The visualization provides a global view to the usage of collection API objects at different locations during program execution. We conduct an empirical study to evaluate the impact of the proposed visualization in program comprehension. The experimental group (having the proposed tool support), on average, completes the tasks in 45% less time as compared to the control group (not provided with the proposed tool). Results show that the proposed tool enables to comprehend more information with less effort and time. We have also evaluated the performance of the proposed tool using 20 benchmark software tools. The proposed tool is anticipated to help the developer in understanding Java programs and assist in program comprehension and maintenance by identifying APIs usage and their patterns.     

Implementing a user interface management system for existing applications using an object-oriented database tool

Numerous engineering application systems have been developed over the past twenty years, and many of these applications will continue to be used for many years to come. Examples of such applications include CAD Systems, finite-element analysis packages and inspection systems. Because many of these applications were developed before graphical workstations became available, they often have simple command-line user interfaces. Thus, there is a need for a graphical user interface management system (UIMS) that can be used to build point-and-click style interfaces for these existing engineering applications. In this paper we describe such a UIMS, and discuss its implementation using an object-oriented database tool. This UIMS allows users to create and modify user interfaces by editing graphical representations of the interfaces, thus eliminating the need to write code to build or modify an interface. The UIMS is implemented using an object-oriented database tool to take advantage of the data manipulation and storage management capabilities it provides. This approach reduces both the quantity and complexity of the code needed to implement the UIMS. It also allowed the UIMS to be implemented in a minimal amount of time.     

A Methodology And Tool Set For Supporting The Development Of Graphical User Interfaces

A methodology and tool set for building application (assumed to be inherently non-graphical) software with graphical user interface is described. Initially, pure application software is built from a set of basic building blocks; subsequently, graphical representations for application objects are defined without direct coding and then the graphical user interface is generated automatically. This paper concentrates on the graphical representation aspects of the user interface. Portability, configurability and sound software engineering principles are major considerations in the design of the overall system architecture. The prototype implementation is based on VDM (Vienna Development Method), Object-based Design, GKS (Graphical Kernel System) and the programming language ADA. An example from CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) is used to illustrate the methodology presented here.     

文字形态与图符信息在网络媒体界面设计的融合应用

文字形态是文字个性及文字图符化信息展示的主要内容,图符信息又构成了网络媒体界面设计信息传播的核心部分,如何将两者娴熟地应用其中,从而推动文字形态在此领域更好的应用。文章通过从“文字形态”到“图符信息”设计应用的深度剖析,从中归纳出网络媒体界面设计根据表现主题进行创意设计的关键、应用方法和表现方式,并通过实例映证随着科技的不断进步,网络媒体界面设计未来的发展空间与方向,得出将文字形态与图符信息做到内容和形式的和谐统一,并配合新技术的互动表现方式将是网络媒体界面设计发展的主旋律。     

一种基于Linux的图形用户接口的设计与实现

介绍一种采用标准C语言开发的Linux图形用户接口设计思想与实现方法,提供简单易用的图形用户编程接口,在此基础上用户可以高效便捷地开发出具有良好可移植性的图形界面应用程序。     

Spring框架在图形用户界面中的应用

将XML技术应用到图形用户界面描述中,给出了一种新的图形用户界面开发方法。通过运用Spring依赖注入特性,将界面组件各属性的设置由Spring配置文件完成,通过调用Java Swing组件库,从而产生基于Java Swing组件的图形用户界面。结论表明,将该方法应用于信息管理系统的开发中,能够降低界面设计编程工作量,并在一定程度上提高软件的开发效率和可维护能力。     

Designing parallel systems: a performance prediction problem

PSEE (Parallel System Evaluation Environment) is a software tool that provides a multiprocessor system for research into alternative architectural decisions and experimentation, with such issues as selection, design, tuning, scheduling, clustering and routing policies. PSEE facilitates simulation and performance evaluation as well as a prediction environment for the design and tuning of parallel systems. These tasks involve cycles through programming, simulation, measurement, visualization and modification of parallel system parameters. PSEE includes a parallel programming tool, a simulator for link oriented parallel systems, BOLAS, and a performance evaluation tool, GRAPH. These PSEE modules are tools oriented to support the above tasks in user-friendly, interactive and animated graphical form. PSEE provides quantitative information in a graphical tailored form. This numerical/graphical output helps the user make decisions about his/her particular development.     

A mobile-agent-based approach to software coordination in the HOOPE system

Software coordination is central to the construction of large-scale high-performance distributed applications with software services scattered over the decentralized Internet. In this paper, a new mobile-agent-based architecture is proposed for the utilization and coordination of geographically distributed computing resources. Under this architecture, a user application is built with a set of software agents that can travel across the network autonomously. These agents utilize the distributed resources and coordinate with each other to complete their task. This approach' s advantages include the natural expression and flexible deployment of the coordination logic, the dynamic adaptation to the network environment and the potential of better application performance. This coordination architecture, together with an object-oriented hierarchical parallel application framework and a graphical application construction tool, is implemented in the HOOPE environment, which provides a systematic support for the de     

基于X窗口的图形用户接口编辑器的设计与实现

本文介绍了一个用于描述、生成用户接口的具有彩排功能的图形用户接口编辑器的设计思想和实现方法．叙述了对话控制树和输入数据队列在用户接口和应用程序的分离中所起的作用．最后还讨论了一种基于事件驱动机制的对话控制字解释程序．     

基于软件体系结构的构件组装工具ABC-Tool

软件朝着越来越复杂和庞大的趋势发展,因此对更有效的软件开发技术的需求十分迫切,近年来,软件体系结构、构件技术和软件复用技术等开始在软件开发中发挥重要作用,成为软件工程领域研究的热点,在基于构件复用的开发方法中,构件组装技术是关键,而且一直以来也是难点所在,ABC(architecture-based component composition)是一种基于软件体系结构、面向构件的软件开发方法,介绍了为ABC方法提供有效支持的工具ABC-Tool,ABC-Tool以软件体系结构为设计蓝图,以构件为基本开发单元,在不修改构件源代码的前提下,通过可视化的图形建模方式,从体系结构的高层设计逐层映射到底层实现,将可运行或可部署的构件组装为最终的可正确运行的系统。     

一种支持模型驱动开发的Web用户界面建模方法

针对Web应用的特点,提出了一种基于XML和界面模板技术的界面建模方法。该方法以图形化的方式在模型层展示了Web用户界面的直观样式,能够对模型驱动的软件开发提供有力的支持。     

Tool support for the design and management of context models

A central task in the development of context-aware applications is the modeling and management of complex context information. In this paper, we present the NexusEditor, which can ease this task by providing a graphical user interface to design schemas for spatial and technical context models, interactively create queries, send them to a server and visualize the results. One main contribution is to show how schema awareness can improve such a tool: The NexusEditor dynamically parses the underlying data model and provides additional syntactic checks, semantic checks, and short-cuts based on the schema information. Furthermore, the tool helps to design new schema definitions based on the existing ones, which is crucial for an iterative and user-centric development of context-aware applications. Finally, it provides interfaces to existing information spaces and visualization tools for spatial data like GoogleEarth.