Murach's Mainframe COBOL

Chapter 4 How to design, code, and test a structured program
How to develop a structured program 106
A complete procedure for developing a structured program 106
The specifications for a summary report-preparation program 108
How to design a structured program 110
The terms for working with a structure chart 110
How to name the modules in a chart 110
How to design the first two levels of a chart 112
How to design the legs of a chart 114
How to add the Read and Write modules to a chart 116
How to number the modules in a chart 118
How to draw charts that won’t fit on one page 118
Alternatives to the structure chart 120
When and how to use pseudocode 122
The basics of using pseudocode 122
How to use pseudocode for the critical modules of a program 124
How to code each module so it is independent 126
How to code and test a program from the top down 128
How to plan the coding and testing sequence 128
How to code the new modules for each phase of testing 130
How to code program stubs 132
The code for the summary report-preparation program 134
The Data Division code 134
The Procedure Division code 136
How COBOL programming compares to object-oriented programming 142
Perspective 144
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