Title:
Software engineering with Perl : scripts from chapters 4, 5, 6, and appendix C
Publication Information:
Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1995
Physical Description:
1 computer disk; 3 1/2 in
ISBN:
9780130169655
General Note:
Accompanies text of the same title (QA76.758.D52 1995)
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Summary
Summary
Designed for software professionals who wish to use the PERL language in various ways - to develop and maintain software in various languages; prototype new applications; and convert data to different formats. This text provides a toolkit written in PERL.
Table of Contents
| 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
| Why We Wrote This Book | p. 1 |
| Software Tools Enable Big Productivity Gains | p. 1 |
| Along Comes CASE | p. 2 |
| Little CASE's Larger History | p. 3 |
| Why Perl Is Good for Software Engineering Tools | p. 5 |
| Testing Too | p. 6 |
| Software Development Processes and Prototyping | p. 6 |
| How to Use This Book | p. 7 |
| Your Friends Along the Way | p. 8 |
| Equipped Better | p. 10 |
| 2 Why Perl? | p. 11 |
| What Is Perl? | p. 11 |
| Why Is Perl Useful for Rapid Prototyping? | p. 12 |
| "Functional quickly" | p. 12 |
| "Easy to modify" | p. 12 |
| "A working model written in a fourth-generation language" | p. 12 |
| "Always rewritten in a procedural language for implementation" | p. 13 |
| "Always discarded" | p. 13 |
| "Something that models human interfaces to computers" | p. 13 |
| "A miniature model of a proposed system" | p. 13 |
| "A model used to determine design correctness" and "A quick way to approximate a problem solution" | p. 13 |
| "Always used with 'live' data" | p. 14 |
| How Perl Stacks Up | p. 14 |
| Perl Beats the Combined Forces | p. 17 |
| Converting Existing Scripts to Perl | p. 17 |
| Really Learning Perl | p. 17 |
| 3 Prototyping with Perl | p. 19 |
| Why Prototype? | p. 19 |
| Risk Area #1 Unknowns in Customer Requirements | p. 20 |
| Risk Area #2 Unknowns in Technology | p. 21 |
| Risk Area #3 Unknowns in Interfaces | p. 22 |
| The Waterfall Development Model | p. 22 |
| The Spiral Model | p. 26 |
| Structured Rapid Prototyping | p. 27 |
| Object-Oriented Analysis and Design | p. 28 |
| Other Development Methodologies | p. 28 |
| Prototyping Methods | p. 29 |
| Risks of Prototyping | p. 30 |
| The General Case of Prototyping | p. 31 |
| Requirements Analysis | p. 32 |
| Design | p. 32 |
| Implementation and Test | p. 33 |
| The Final Spin Cycle | p. 34 |
| Case History: Prototyping Power Estimation | p. 37 |
| 4 Productivity Tools | p. 43 |
| Generic Tags File Generator Tool | p. 44 |
| Reuse Library System | p. 51 |
| Documentation Extraction Tool | p. 52 |
| Reuse Browser | p. 53 |
| AutoDoc | p. 53 |
| Code Generators | p. 56 |
| Command-Line Processing and Help Code Generator | p. 56 |
| Test Fixtures | p. 63 |
| Stretch Yourself on Productivity Tools | p. 63 |
| 5 Software Metrics with Perl | p. 65 |
| Why Metrics? | p. 65 |
| What Are Software Metrics? | p. 66 |
| Counting Lines of Code | p. 67 |
| Halstead's Metrics | p. 71 |
| McCabe's Metric | p. 73 |
| Using Software and Other Metrics | p. 74 |
| Misusing Metrics | p. 75 |
| Metrics, Management, and Misconception | p. 76 |
| Not in My Code | p. 76 |
| Look What I've Done | p. 78 |
| Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics | p. 78 |
| Those Who Live By The Books... | p. 79 |
| Taken as Directed | p. 79 |
| Stretch Yourself on Software Metrics | p. 80 |
| 6 Configuration Management | p. 81 |
| The How and Why of Configuration Management | p. 81 |
| Two Ways of Managing Versions | p. 83 |
| Revision Control System (RCS) Basics | p. 84 |
| Jumpstarting Revisions | p. 87 |
| Viewing History | p. 87 |
| How Far Does It Take Us? | p. 88 |
| Identifying Object Files | p. 88 |
| Automatic History | p. 90 |
| Handling Systems or Packages | p. 91 |
| Another Option | p. 92 |
| RCS Perl Scripts | p. 94 |
| Smart ci and co Tools | p. 94 |
| Problem Reporting | p. 95 |
| Stretch Yourself on Configuration Management | p. 97 |
| Appendix A Perl Quick Tour | p. 101 |
| Perl Data Types | p. 101 |
| Variables | p. 102 |
| Literals | p. 104 |
| Basic Syntax | p. 106 |
| Subroutines | p. 111 |
| Packages | p. 112 |
| Operators | p. 113 |
| Regular Expressions | p. 120 |
| Special Variables | p. 126 |
| Perl Formatting Capabilities | p. 128 |
| Wrapping Up | p. 132 |
| Appendix B Portable Perl | p. 133 |
| Appendix C Toolkit Libraries | p. 135 |
| Langdef File Format and Access Routines | p. 135 |
| Langdef Regular Expressions | p. 136 |
| Langdef Capabilities | p. 137 |
| Langdef Routines | p. 138 |
| Routines Found in main Package | p. 139 |
| Useful Routines Found in "Langdef" Package | p. 145 |
| The Perl Forms System | p. 158 |
| What is a Form? | p. 158 |
| Defining a Form | p. 158 |
| Attributes Common to All Fields | p. 161 |
| Function Keys | p. 166 |
| Text Editing in Fields | p. 167 |
| Using Text Fields | p. 168 |
| Using Hidden Text Fields | p. 169 |
| Using Cyclic Fields | p. 169 |
| Using Enumerated Fields | p. 169 |
| Using the Forms System | p. 170 |
| Appendix D Software Engineering with Perl Scripts | p. 207 |
| 4 Productivity Tools | p. 208 |
| Tags.pl | p. 208 |
| doc_builter.pl | p. 217 |
| doc_browser.pl | p. 226 |
| AutoDoc.pl | p. 231 |
| 5 Software Metrics with Perl | p. 235 |
| countlines.pl | p. 235 |
| halstead.pl | p. 242 |
| mccabe.pl | p. 251 |
| 6 Configuration Management | p. 259 |
| smart_diff.pl, smart_ci.pl, smart_co.pl, send-pr.pl | p. 259 |
| Appendix E Bibliography | p. 267 |
| Appendix F GNU General Public License | p. 269 |
