Control structure diagram

A control structure diagram (CSD) automatically documents the program flow within the source code and adds indentation with graphical symbols. Thereby the source code becomes visibly structured without sacrificing space.

See also

• Data structure diagram
• Diagram
• Entity-relationship model
• Unified Modeling Language
• Visual programming language

References

• Cross, James H.; Hendrix, T. Dean; Maghsoodloo, Saeed (1 June 1998). "The Control Structure Diagram: An Overview and Initial Evaluation" (in en). Empirical Software Engineering 3 (2): 131–158. doi:10.1023/A:1008085415145. ISSN 1573-7616. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1008085415145. Retrieved 31 March 2025. 

• Cross, J.H.; Sheppard, S.V. (1988). "The control structure diagram". Seventh Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers an Communications. 1988 Conference Proceedings. pp. 274–278. doi:10.1109/PCCC.1988.10084. ISBN 0-8186-0830-7. https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/pccc/1988/00010084/12OmNAS9zra. 

• Cross, J.H.; Sheppard, S.V. (1988). "The Control structure Diagram: An automated graphical representation for software". [1988] Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Volume II: Software track. 2. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 446–454. doi:10.1109/HICSS.1988.11836. ISBN 0-8186-0842-0. 

External links

• "The Control Structure Diagram (CSD)" - A chapter from jGRASP Tutorials
• "Control Structure Diagrams for Ada 95"