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One of the major obstacles in the construction of large software systems is in the difficulties humans have in understanding the interactions between it’s many different parts. Behavioral studies show that humans can only cope with a relatively small amount of elements and relationships at a time. A program development environment should therefore, ideally, only show to the designer the required details and hide all other irrelevant and therefore distracting items. At different stages of the design process different parts of the program and different kinds of relationships between the programs elements are considered. To meet these needs the GOODS (Graphical Object-Oriented Development System) system was developed. GOODS enables the user to get a graphical description (a GOODS diagram) of the the part of the programs that is in her Focus Of Attention (FOA) and from the Point Of View (POV) that interests her. The POV concept, introduced in this paper, is a specification of the kind of details and relationships that interest the user. Relationships of kinds that are not members of the selected POV will not be shown in the diagram.
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Adar, M., Kantorowitz, E., Bar-On, E. (1992). A Graphical Interactive Object-Oriented Development System. In: Baeza-Yates, R., Manber, U. (eds) Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3422-8_23
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