The workshop system: a practical knowledge-based software environment

Abstract

The Workshop System is a programming environment designed to support teams of programmers working concurrently on large software projects. An essential feature of the Workshop System is the storage of all information from the software project as fine grained objects in a shared database. In order to allow effective usage of this potentially overwhelming amount of information, the Workshop System provides a rule-based language called SE-KRL for specifying both the software objects and the software process for a given domain. SE-KRL programs can then be written to automate mechanical aspects of the software development process as well as to guide the essential creative activity of a software engineer.