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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Design of a uniform language for client-designer communication in software development Abstract: MERA is a diagramic language system designed to enhance client-designer communication in software development. It realizes comprehensive support by providing a uniform language scheme, client support functions, and software engineering tools. The language scheme uses a uniform syntax to reduce the learning burden for diverse diagram notations. The same language scheme is also used to define new diagram types. Therefore the same diagram tools used to create and analyze end diagram is also used to create and analyze the language definition itself. MERA has several language features designed to enhance client-designer communications, including separation of view data, animation of diagrams, stereotype models, methodology models, and common data format. The separation of view data from definitional data increases the flexibility of diagram display so that a diagram can be adapted to suit a client's preferences. The animation of diagrams enhances the understandability of abstract models. The stereotype model serves as a template diagram for particular classes of software and implements storage and reuse of domain knowledge. The methodology model guides the process of constructing the diagram to assure completeness and consistency. The common data format enables exchange of diagrams across heterogeneous computer environments. These client support features help to increase the usability of the diagrams and reduce some of the communication problems using MERA diagrams. Additional software engineering tools support use of MERA diagrams in the context of software development. The design of MERA and associated tools was developed incrementally and tested through actual use in more than seven major software development projects over a period of ten years. |
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