SMILE/lVIARVEL: Two Approaches to Knowledge-Based Programming Environments

CUCS-227-86 This technical report consists of three related papers in the area of intelligent assistance for software development and maintenance. Intelligent Assistance without Artificial Intelligence describes SMll.E, a software engineering environment that assists teams of programmers without using AI technology. An Architecture for Intelligent Assistance in Software Development presents an AI approach to generalizing the capabilities of SMll.E. Granularity Issues in a Knowledge-Based Programming Environment briefly describes MARVEL, an intelligent assistant based on this AI approach, and compares it to SMll.E. The development and maintenance of SMll.E is supported in part by the United States Anny, Software Technology Development Division of CECOM COMMIADP, Fort Monmouth, NJ and in part by ZTI-SOF of Siemens Corporation, Munich, Germany. The designs of the architecture and MARVEL were conducted while Dr. Kaiser was a Visiting Computer Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. ·Dr. Feiler's address is the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, 580 South Aiken A venue, Pittsburgh, P A 15232. : Intelligent Assistance without Artificial Intelligence Gail E. Kaiser· Columbia University Department of Computer Science New York, NY 10027 Peter H. Feiler Carnegie-Mellon University Software Engineering Institute Pittsburgh, PA 15213