Jess in Action

Chapter 11. Writing the application

In this chapter you’ll...

• Write the rules for the Tax Forms Advisor
• Work with multiple modules
• Test the completed application

You’ve done the research, laid the groundwork, and sketched out a design, so now it’s time to write the rules that implement the Tax Forms Advisor application. In this chapter, you’ll write the rules, test them, and then test the completed application.

As you’ll recall from chapter 10, the completed application will consist of five modules: ask, startup, interview, recommend, and report. You developed the ask module in chapter 10. In this chapter, you’ll write the rules for the other four modules one module at a time. The code for the complete application is available from this book’s ...