Strategies for designing useful interfaces for software in high voltage applications and a case study of these principles applied to the alternative transients program (ATP).

[摘要] ATP (Alternative Transients Program) has beern used as a case study to show the dev elopment ofstrategies for writing usable and maintainable software in the High Voltage field. This was doneby developing a graphical user interface (GUI) for ATP as a pre-processor to the program. TheGUI was developed using modern software quality principles, as well as modem usability andmaintainability trends including the use of object-oriented programming and design. Theimplementation of the GUI was performed by first writing the documentation for the programincluding the User Requirements Specifications, the User Reference Manual, and the TechnicalReference Manual, and then coding the actual GUI, The implementation is shown to be successfulin that the program is verv usable, easily maintainable, and adheres to internationally acceptedstandards for software. It is shown that the techniques used for this design can easily be used forother High Voltage software which suffers from setbacks similar to those of ATP.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand