DYNAMIC NAVIGATION IN MULTIPLE VIEW SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS AND DESIGNS

This paper describes an approach for dynamic navigation among multiple view software specifications and designs. Each view contains graphica l and/or textual information about a particular aspect of the system. The paper describes an approach for facilitating access to a specifica tion/design model by mapping the multiple views of the model to an int egrated underlying representation and providing a Dynamic Navigation S ystem for navigating through this representation in an application-ind ependent and method-independent fashion. The paper also describes a hy permedia prototype that provides dynamic navigation among the multiple views using different search strategies and paths. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.