Visual Programming, Knowledge Engineering, and Software Engineering

Knowledge Engineering, and Software Engineering Tim Menzies March 4, 1996 Abstract It is an interesting and exciting challenge to change programming modalities from a traditional textbased approach to a 2-D screen. Based on a survey of current visual programming systems, we nd that numerous software engineering and knowledge engineering techniques are required to meet that challenge. Further, we argue that VP systems can bene t from on-going knowledge engineering research on the computational complexity of different representations. Hence, we conclude that the designers of VP systems should be well-versed in a wide range of knowledge engineering and software engineering techniques.