A knowledge-based approach to software development

摘要

Traditional software development consists of many knowledge intensive and intellectual activities related to understanding a problem to be solved and designing a solution to that problem. These activities are informal, subjective, and undocumented and are the same for original development and subsequent support. Since 1982, the USAF Rome Laboratory has been developing the Knowledge-Based Software Assistant (KBSA), a revolutionary new paradigm for software development in productivity and quality. KBSA does not pursue the improvement of traditional technologies or methodologies such as new programming languages and management procedures to fulfill this objective, but has instead adopted a revolutionary new approach.