Directions for Future KBSA Research
Abstract
This paper is meant to stimulate discussion on future directions that the Knowledge-Based Software Assistant (KBSA) program should take in order to encourage the transfer of its technology to industrial use. We have analyzed results of KBSA projects to date, and believe the most salient issues are KBSAs lack of attention to scalability and its human and organizational impact, as well as its weakness in the area of object-oriented design and reuse. To address these issues, we identify opportunities to leverage technology from other related areas, such as CASE and object-oriented environments.