Ranking software components for reuse based on non-functional properties

Kessel, Marcus; Atkinson, Colin

doi:10.1007/s10796-016-9685-3

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“…A component ranking method based on non-dominated sorting for the purpose of software components reuse is presented in [19] in which a specification of the relative importance of non-functional properties is used for a partial ordering. In addition, components' coupling has been used as a measure for the external and internal dependencies between classes; however, such measure is restricted to the entry class of candidates determined by test-driven search evaluation.…”

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Software Components’ Coupling Detection for Software Reusability

Alzamil¹

2018

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Most of the software systems design and modeling techniques concentrates on capturing the functional aspects that comprise a system's architecture. Non-functional aspects are rarely considered on most of the software system modeling and design techniques. One of the most important aspects of software component is reusability. Software reusability may be understood by identifying components' dependence, which can be measured by measuring the coupling between system's components. In this paper an approach to detect the coupling between software system's components is introduced for the purpose of identifying software components' reusability that may help in refining the system design. The proposed approach uses a dynamic notion of sequence diagram to understand the dynamic behavior of a software system. The notion of data and control dependence is used to detect the dependences among software components. The components' dependences are identified in which one component contributes to the output computation of the other component. The results of the experiments show that the proposed algorithm can help the software engineers to understand the dependences among the software components and optimize the software system model by eliminating the unnecessary dependences among software components to enhance their cohesiveness. Such detection provides a better understanding of the software system model in terms of its components' dependences and their influence on reusability, in which their elimination may enhance software reusability.

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Section: The Related Workmentioning

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Software Components’ Coupling Detection for Software Reusability

Alzamil¹

2018

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“…Providing more advanced mechanisms for ranking components based on quality criteria would thus constitute a significant step forward towards component reuse. In (Kessel and Atkinson 2016), the authors propose an effective and reliable method for ranking software components based on their non-functional properties, without requiring users to provide quantitative weighting information. Non-functional criteria, designated by software metrics with only minimal information about their relative importance, are specified.…”

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confidence: 99%