SOFTM: A software maintenance expert system in Prolog

SOFTM: A software maintenance expert system in Prolog

This paper describes a software maintenance (SM) knowledge based system ealled SOFTM, serving the three following purposes: (1) assisting a software programmer or analyst in his application code maintenFce tasks, (2) generating and updating automatically sonware correction documentation, (3) helping the end user register, and possibly interpret, observed errors on the successive application cod...

Using Prolog for Software System Maintenance

Maintenance of large, portable software systems often leads to requirements which cannot be solved by the traditional make tool. Abstract naming schemes for les and programs, as they are used by preprocessors in actual make tools, are fundamental for a more general solution. But, as shown in this paper, a preprocessor is not powerful enough for all requirements. Some kind of \database" with the...

Software Maintenance Expert System (SMXPERT) - a Decision Support Instrument

Software Maintenance expert system (SM) A Decision Support Instrument

Maintaining and supporting the software of an organization is not an easy task, and software maintainers do not currently have access to tools to evaluate strategies for improving the specific activities of software maintenance. This article presents a knowledge-based system which helps in locating best practices in a software maintenance capability maturity model (SM). The contributions of thi...

Expert System Maintenance

Knowledge maintenance (KM) is the process of reflecting over some current knowledge based system in order to handle a new situation. Changes that fix new problems must not introduce bugs into old fixes. A common technique for KM is to reflect over dependencies between concepts. In this review, we sample the KM work on modeling dependencies using either a logic-based, a network-based, or a proce...