Intelligent assistance for software development and maintenance

Author

Kaiser, Gail E. ; Feiler, P.H. ; Popovich, Steven S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

5

Issue

3

fYear

1988

fDate

5/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

49

Abstract

An environment is described, called Professor Marvel, that provides early error checking and answers questions about the program under development. The environment has a certain understanding of the systems being developed and how to use tools to produce software. It aids individual programmers and helps coordinate programming teams. The key components of Marvel are a database that stores data represented as objects, as in object-oriented languages, and a model of the development process that imposes a structure on programming activities. Marvel´s support of insight and of opportunistic processing is discussed at length, as is the handling of side effects. A sample session is described.<>

Keywords

expert systems; programming environments; software packages; ES; Professor Marvel; database; development process; environment; error checking; individual programmers; insight; maintenance; object-oriented languages; opportunistic processing; programming teams; software development; Artificial intelligence; Automatic programming; Birth disorders; Buildings; Debugging; Instruction sets; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.2023

Filename

2023