Automatic indexing of software artifacts

Girardi, M.; Ibrahim, Bertrand

doi:10.1109/icsr.1994.365814

Cited by 15 publications

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“…In many cases, like in [4] and [8], they are based on natural language. Other works resort to formal methods to describe the relevant behavior of a component, thus minimizing the problems derived from natural language.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Software Variability by Reusing Generic Incomplete Models at the Requirements Specification Stage

Redondo

López‐Nores

Pazos‐Arias

et al. 2004

Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools

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Abstract. Selecting components that satisfy a given set of requirements is a key problem in software reuse, especially in reusing between different domains of functionality. This concern has been treated in the ARIFS methodology, which provides an environment to reuse partial and formal requirements specifications, managing the variability implicit in their incompleteness. In this paper, we define generic incomplete specifications, to introduce an explicit source of variability that allows reusing models across different domains, accommodating them to operate in multiple contexts. An extended formal basis is defined to deal with these tasks, that entails improvements in the reuse environment.

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Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Software Variability by Reusing Generic Incomplete Models at the Requirements Specification Stage

Redondo

López‐Nores

Pazos‐Arias

et al. 2004

Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools

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“…In another proposal, Girardi [4] presents a system for software reuse based on indexing assets described using natural language. Assets descriptions are expressed in imperative sentences, from which the indexing process generates a structure that follows a representation model adopted by the system.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of them adopt approaches in which components features are automatically extracted [4]. Despite their advances and benefits, the main problem of such approaches is the fact that components features are obtained directly from information included in source code or documentation (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Search Service for Software Components Based on a Semi-Structured Data Representation Model

Brito

Nobrega

Ribeiro

et al. 2009

2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

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In order to make reuse practices effective, developers must find required components easily. In such a direction, representation models based on semi-structured data have been adopted to facilitate the discovery of required components. Following such a trend, this paper presents the architecture, functionalities and implementation of a search service that adopts techniques for indexing semistructured data, making possible the discovery of software assets through regular path expression queries.

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“…The distance they introduce is a weighted linear combination of four functions which reflect whether relevant entities in the query and the asset are identical and to what extent the query and the asset have common attributes via their shared subclasses and their shared super-classes. In [22,23,21] Girardi and Ibrahim introduce a structural measure of distance between software assets, and use it to perform retrieval in a software library. Library assets are represented using case-frame-like representations that are d erived from a declarative definition of the asset in natural language; and queries are derived in a similar fashion from an imperative definition of the desired requirements.…”

Section: Retrieving Assets In Reuse Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%