Hitachi, Ltd.

Junko Sakata

Hiroyuki Maezawa

Takanobu Shimono

Toshio Kinoshita

A design supporting method having a specification edit function in an information processing system having a computer and an interactive terminal is disclosed. Items to be described in a specification are correlated among specifications so that when an item described in the specification is modified, a portion which is possibly affected by the modification can be analyzed.

Software design supporting method for classifying portions possibly

Disclosed herein is a data edition supporting method in an information processing system having a computer, interactive terminals and a clock. The method comprises the steps of finding from the clock the time at which a data item was edited; of storing the obtained time in relation to its corresponding data item; of checking to see whether, during data editing by use of an interactive terminal, the data editing time comes before or after a certain time; and of determining the type of editing in accordance with the results of the judgment made in the preceding step.

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Ichikawa, Japan

Junko Sakata