METHOD FOR RETRIEVING DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS OF EXCHANGE APPLICATION SOFTWARE

摘要

PURPOSE: A method for retrieving design specifications of an exchange application software is provided to reflect contents for expressing self knowledge of the design specifications and to reflect reference information for detailing relations with other design specifications, so that a developer can directly retrieve the corresponding design specifications and exactly retrieve related other specifications by using the reflected reference information. CONSTITUTION: Relations between design specifications are evaluated from the design specifications and detailed/reference information. A retrieval data model satisfying users' questions is extracted. Relational unit specifications are expressed. The relational unit specifications detail relations between unit specifications, and detail relativity between the corresponding unit specifications. Inquiries are expanded to have various path operators. The inquiries are detailed to be applied to the retrieval data model. The applied inquiries are parsed to be performed.