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From: cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: IDE User Help
Keywords: IDE StP CASE
Message-ID: <7540@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 00:24:37 GMT
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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We are becoming a rather large user of IDE's StP here, and I am looking for
other users with whom to trade useful in-house developed utilities.  The IDE
User Group is supposed to be setting up a 'user network', but in the meantime
maybe this forum can be used to get something started.

I'm heading a group of 10 people (only 5 on board so far) reverse-engineering
750,000 lines of code on 17 processors, and am chartered to produce 22 volumes
of CPCI specifications (of our own format) averaging about 1,000 pages each.
I have 12 months to accomplish this task.

We are working on a couple of things that I'm willing to trade for what I
hope someone out there might be working on.  First of all, we're about 60%
complete with a utility to read c-source code and produce structure charts
annotated with data/control flows, as well as global and external data
references, library procedure references, and source file names.

We are also working on a utility to convert state transition diagrams into
state transition tables, so that balancing can take place.  And, we are
working on a utility to produce a data structure diagram defining the
events and actions on a state transition diagram.

Finally, I have a beta copy of 4.2, and am actively excercising the FrameMaker
interface.  I have developed some techniques, not yet implemented in code, that
enable description fields produced in the annotation editor to make full use of
the Maker Markup Language.

What I hope someone is working on is a utility to generate dictionary
objects corresponding to entities on a *.pct drawing.  If so, I am extremely
interested, since that is another objective I must achieve, and at this time,
don't know how I'm going to accomplish it.

One last thing I'm looking for is people.  Happen to know anyone interested in
helping with the above tasks (using the tools as well as implementing them)?
Contractors/consultants happily accepted.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Chuck Berg
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