Title :
A lexical comparison program to simplify the maintenance of portable software
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., American Univ., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The author introduces a simple tool to alleviate the problem of detecting substantive differences in software versions. It is a typical line-by-line file-comparison program, modified to work with a lexical analyzer so that it reports only differences in the text that might affect code generation. The report of differences relates back to the original source files, so that the programmer does not have to map the code differences back to the files he is accustomed to using
Keywords :
software engineering; software portability; software tools; code generation; lexical analyzer; lexical comparison program; line-by-line file-comparison program; maintenance; portable software; software versions; source files; substantive differences; Computer science; Control systems; Information systems; Logic; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 1988., Proceedings of the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0879-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.1988.10186
