Implementing faceted classification for software reuse

Prieto-Díaz, Rubén

doi:10.1145/103167.103176

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“…In terms of models, automated browsing support gives the user the ability to view and navigate all models according to some filtering criteria, such as facets [37]. One particularly important browsing criteria is to allow users to browse for models that are located in the same folder or project of a particular model.…”

Section: Desirable Features Of a Model Search Enginementioning

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MOOGLE: a metamodel-based model search engine

Lucrédio

Fortes²,

Whittle

2010

Softw Syst Model

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Models are becoming increasingly important in the software development process. As a consequence, the number of models being used is increasing, and so is the need for efficient mechanisms to search them. Various existing search engines could be used for this purpose, but they lack features to properly search models, mainly because they are strongly focused on text-based search. This paper presents Moogle, a model search engine that uses metamodeling information to create richer search indexes and to allow more complex queries to be performed. The paper also presents the results of an evaluation of Moogle, which showed that the metamodel information improves the accuracy of the search. Communicated by Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki.This work was developed at the

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Section: Desirable Features Of a Model Search Enginementioning

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“…Instead, all elements matching the specified filters are shown. The filters are organized into a faceted-based scheme [37]: there are five facets (Fig. 11a)-Location, Metamodel, Metaelement, File size and Last update.…”

Section: Advanced Searchmentioning

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MOOGLE: a metamodel-based model search engine

Lucrédio

Fortes²,

Whittle

2010

Softw Syst Model

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“…Like the attribute classification method, various facets classify components, however, there are usually a lot fewer facets than there are potential attributes (at most, 7). Ruben Prieto-Diaz [2,8,12,17] has proposed a faceted scheme that uses six facets.…”

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“…There often is a large body of software available for use on a new application, but the difficulty in locating the software or even being aware that it exists results in the same or similar components being re-invented over and over again. In order to overcome this impediment, a necessary first step is the ability to organize and catalog collections software components and provide the means for developers to quickly search a collection to identify candidates for potential reuse [2,16] . Software reuse is an important area of software engineering research that promises significant improvements in software productivity and quality [4] .…”

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An Integrated Classification Scheme for Efficient Retrieval of Components

Rao¹,

Niranjan²

2008

J. of Computer Science

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Abstract:Reuse is the key paradigm for increasing productivity and quality in software development. To be able to reuse software components, whether it is code or designs, it is necessary to locate the component that can be reused. Locating components, or even realizing they exist, can be quite difficult in a large collection of components. These components need to be suitably classified and stored in a repository to enable efficient retrieval. Four schemes had been previously employed, free text, enumerated, attribute value and faceted classification. Experiences revealed that individual classification schemes were unable to solve the problems associated with component classification. We required a combination of classification techniques to meet the problems with individual schemes and to improve retrieval efficiency. This research looked at each of the classification techniques above, and proposes a new method for classifying component details within a repository.

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“…Frames in LaSSIE are structured into hierarchical, taxonomic categories by human experts. The multiple faceted classification scheme (Prieto-Diaz, 1991) is another format of structured representations in which reusable components are represented with multiple facets, each of which is described with a term. A conceptual distance graph has to be constructed to reflect the semantic relationships among these terms.…”

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Reuse-Conducive Development Environments

Fischer

2005

Autom Software Eng

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Despite its well-recognized benefits, software reuse has not met its expected success due to technical, cognitive, and social difficulties. We have systematically analyzed the reuse problem (especially the cognitive and social difficulties faced by software developers who reuse) from a multidimensional perspective, drawing on our long-term research on information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and knowledge-based systems. Based on this analysis, we propose the concept of reuse-conducive development environments, which encourage and enable software developers to reuse through the smooth integration of reuse repository systems and development environments. We have designed, implemented, and evaluated CodeBroker-a reuse-conducive development environment-that autonomously locates and delivers task-relevant and personalized components into the current software development environment. Empirical evaluations of CodeBroker have shown that the system is effective in promoting reuse by enabling software developers to reuse components unknown to them, reducing the difficulties in locating components, and augmenting the programming capability of software developers.

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Implementing faceted classification for software reuse

Cited by 379 publications

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MOOGLE: a metamodel-based model search engine

MOOGLE: a metamodel-based model search engine

An Integrated Classification Scheme for Efficient Retrieval of Components

Reuse-Conducive Development Environments

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