Implementation of a language translator for the computer aided prototyping system
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Authors
Altizer, Charles Edwin
Subjects
Ada
Rapid prototyping
Software reusability
Computer aided prototyping
Prototype system description language
CAPS
PSDL
Kodiyak
Rapid prototyping
Software reusability
Computer aided prototyping
Prototype system description language
CAPS
PSDL
Kodiyak
Advisors
Luqi
Date of Issue
1988-12
Date
December 1988
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
Rapid prototyping is a method of software system development that is gaining
much support presently. Rapid prototyping allows the designer to quickly produce a
model of a system or part of a system which the user can see and thus verify if his requirements
have been met. The prototype specifications can then be efficiently converted
to an accurate set of program specifications that the programmers can
implement as a final working system. The computer aided prototyping system
(CAPS) is a rapid prototyping system that will automate many of the processes of
prototyping such as code generation of prototype modules and searching for reusable
components.
One of the many components of CAPS is a language translator which translates a
prototype specification written in the Prototype System Description Language
(PSDL) into a set of Ada procedures and packages. The Ada procedures and packages,
when executed in proper order, will effectively execute the prototype. This thesis
demonstrates an implementation of the translator component of the CAPS. An attribute
grammar tool, Kodiyak, is used to build a translator which implements the major
constructs of PSDL and produces Ada code to implement PSDL operators
according to their control constraints.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
151 p.
Citation
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