Automatic documentation for program maintenance

Summary form only given. A software package has been developed to handle automatic documentation of software so as to make easier the process of program maintenance during the software life-cycle. The main program offers a number of choices to the user, and according to the choices will produce analyses of the use of variables, structures, etc. The analysis includes a search for correct and consistent use of objects in the set of programs. Another choice is the production of a documented version of the program produced by accessing the program on one hand and prompting the user on the other for extra information on the use of identified objects. The described system is applied to C++ programs and is written using the object-oriented approach, but it could be adapted to other contexts