Opportunities for software reuse in an uncertain world: From past to emerging trends

Capilla, Rafael; Gallina, Barbara; Cetina, Carlos; Favaro, John

doi:10.1002/smr.2217

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“…This type of reuse is hence close to opportunistic reuse in this sense. A recent survey by Capilla et al [5] investigates different forms of reuse from past practices to current ones. Although the authors provide some insight on how practitioners do reuse, they do not analyze in depth which of these practices are carried out in an opportunistic way.…”

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On opportunistic software reuse

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The availability of open source assets for almost all imaginable domains has led the software industry to opportunistic design—an approach in which people develop new software systems in an ad hoc fashion by reusing and combining components that were not designed to be used together. In this paper we investigate this emerging approach. We demonstrate the approach with an industrial example in which Node.js modules and various subsystems are used in an opportunistic way. Furthermore, to study opportunistic reuse as a phenomenon, we present the results of three contextual interviews and a survey with reuse practitioners to understand to what extent opportunistic reuse offers improvements over traditional systematic reuse approaches.

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“…Among the significant kinds of knowledge that can be reused in software development, tacit knowledge is one of them [55]. Recent research claims there is a current trend for software reuse evolving towards knowledge reuse, as purely reusing software is not easy for developers, nor profitable or interesting [56,57]. In this work, we consider knowledge to be the information gathered from sources of support, integrated with semantic content tailored by software developers' expertise.…”

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Knowledge reuse in software projects: Retrieving software development Q&A posts based on project task similarity

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Software developers need to cope with a massive amount of knowledge throughout the typical life cycle of modern projects. This knowledge includes expertise related to the software development phases (e.g., programming, testing) using a wide variety of methods and tools, including development methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile), software tools (e.g., Eclipse), programming languages (e.g., Java, SQL), and deployment strategies (e.g., Docker, Jenkins). However, there is no explicit integration of these various types of knowledge with software development projects so that developers can avoid having to search over and over for similar and recurrent solutions to tasks and reuse this knowledge. Specifically, Q&A sites such as Stack Overflow are used by developers to share software development knowledge through posts published in several categories, but there is no link between these posts and the tasks developers perform. In this paper, we present an approach that (i) allows developers to associate project tasks with Stack Overflow posts, and (ii) recommends which Stack Overflow posts might be reused based on task similarity. We analyze an industry dataset, which contains project tasks associated with Stack Overflow posts, looking for the similarity of project tasks that reuse a Stack Overflow post. The approach indicates that when a software developer is performing a task, and this task is similar to another task that has been associated with a post, the same post can be recommended to the developer and possibly reused. We believe that this approach can significantly advance the state of the art of software knowledge reuse by supporting novel knowledge-project associations.

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“…With the above-listed challenges faced by software reusability being addressed, it is safe to say software reuse is possible and can be adopted. Capilla et al (2019) survey shows that the most popular quality properties when adopting a reuse strategy are readability, functional stability, performance interoperability, security, privacy, portability, efficiency, and modularity, in that if these listed qualities are not put in place, software reuse becomes challenging.…”

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Software Reusability: Approaches and Challenges

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2021

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Software reuse is used to aid the software development process which in recent times can improve the resulting quality and productivity of software development, by assisting software engineers throughout various software engineering phases to enhance the quality of software, provide quick turnaround time for software development using few people, tools, and methods, which creates a good software quality by enhancing integration of the software system to provide a competitive advantage. This paper examines the concept of software reuse, the approaches to be considered for software reuse, which is broadly shared into three categories: component-based software reuse, domain engineering and software product lines, architecture-based software reuse and challenges that affect the software reuse development process.

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Opportunities for software reuse in an uncertain world: From past to emerging trends

Cited by 25 publications

References 49 publications

On opportunistic software reuse

On opportunistic software reuse

Knowledge reuse in software projects: Retrieving software development Q&A posts based on project task similarity

Software Reusability: Approaches and Challenges

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