Patent ID: 7610576

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: selecting a first process from a plurality of processes; receiving an indication of a location of configuration files and a location of application files associated with the first process, the first process being defined by the configuration files and the application files; automatically extracting flow destinations and flow labels from the configuration files and the application files for inclusion in a flow diagram by: identifying a first file of the configuration files and the application files in the first process; separating the first file into a plurality of tokens; searching the plurality of tokens for tokens corresponding to a predetermined tag of a coding standard; extracting the flow destinations and the flow labels from the tokens corresponding to the predetermined tag; and recursively repeating, until each of the configuration files and the application files is identified, said identifying, said separating, said searching, and said extracting for a next file of the configuration files and application files, wherein the next file is identified from the flow destination of a previous file; generating the flow diagram from the extracted flow destinations and flow labels; displaying the plurality of processes in a first portion of a screen display; and simultaneously displaying the generated flow diagram of the first process in a second portion of the screen display, wherein selection of a second process of the plurality of processes by a user in the first portion of the display causes display of a corresponding flow diagram of the second process in the second portion of the display.