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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1985
Kazumasa Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Maezawa, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A diagrammatic method is disclosed of testing a program in a data processing system equipped with a display terminal for interactive operations. Program specification inputs are given in a diagrammatic form through interactive operations and are edited into diagrammatic specifications. Those diagrammatic specifications are then translated into a source program described in, for example, FORTRAN, in which are interspersed comment statements each of which indicates a diagrammatic specification corresponding to the associated statement of the source program. In the course of a test the diagrammatic specification corresponding to a process under execution is retrieved and displayed according to a comment statement, and the portions corresponding to executed operations are displayed distinctively, for example, in a special color, while the resultant values of variables are also displayed.