Towards a Programmer’s Apprentice (Again)
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CBMM-Memo-030.pdf
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Author(s)
Shrobe, Howard
Katz, Boris
Davis, Randall
Date Issued
April 3, 2015
Publisher
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
Series/Report no.
CBMM Memo Series;030
Abstract
Programmers are loathe to interrupt their workflow to document their design rationale, leading to frequent errors when software is modified—often much later and by different programmers. A Pro- grammer’s Assistant could interact with the programmer to capture and preserve design rationale, in a natural way that would make rationale capture “cost less than it’s worth”, and could also detect common flaws in program design. Such a programmer’s assistant was not practical when it was first proposed decades ago, but advances over the years make now the time to revisit the concept, as our prototype shows.
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Computer Programming
Documentation
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