The Schematic Programming Tool: An Application of A.I. to Software Engineering

We describe the Schematic Programming Tool. SPT is a graphical programming environment designed to code flows of reasoning and associated data manipulation in a form understandable both to the programmer and to a domain expert. It supports classical software paradigms as well as real time concepts. It is presently being utilised in the ANDES network management project at S.W.I.F.T. An overview of functionality and an example of applications are given, and resulting benefits in development, maintenance and documentation are described.