Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects

Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Current Developments and Future Prospects

Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-818-7.ch504
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Abstract

Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the way to improve many of the software development activities. As with many other disciplines, software development quality improves with the experience, knowledge of the developers, past projects and expertise. Software also evolves as it operates in changing and volatile environments. Hence, there is significant potential for using AI for improving all phases of the software development life cycle. This chapter provides a survey on the use of AI for software engineering that covers the main software development phases and AI methods such as natural language processing techniques, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, ant colony optimization, and planning methods.
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Use Of Ai In Planning And Project Effort Estimation

Good project planning involves many aspects: staff need to be assigned to tasks in a way that takes account of their experience and ability, the dependencies between tasks need to be determined, times of tasks need to be estimated in a way that meets the project completion date and the project plan will inevitably need revision as it progresses. AI has been proposed for most phases of planning software development projects, including assessing feasibility, estimation of cost and resource requirements, risk assessment and scheduling. This section provides pointers to some of the proposed uses of knowledge based systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks and case based reasoning, in project planning and summarizes their effectiveness.

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