The Reusable Software Library

Burton, Bruce A.; Aragón, Rosane; Bailey, Scott; Koehler, K. D.; Mayes, L. A.

doi:10.1109/ms.1987.231060

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“…The RSL [5] system extracts free-text single-term indices from comments in source code files looking for keywords like "author", "date created", etc. REUSE [4] is an information retrieval system which stores software objects as textual documents in view of retrieval for reuse.…”

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Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation

Antoniol

Casazza²,

Lucia³

2000

Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance ICSM-94

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Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation

Antoniol

Casazza²,

Lucia³

2000

Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance ICSM-94

103

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“…Free-text indexing systems automatically extract keywords from natural language documentation (such as manual pages and code comments) by using classic information retrieval techniques, and use these keywords to recognize software components. GURU [20] and RSL [5] adopted this technique. Knowledge-based indexing systems perform syntactic and semantic analysis on the natural language specification, and also store semantic information about the application domain and the natural language itself in a knowledge base.…”

Section: Software Repository Organizationmentioning

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Organizing and visualizing software repositories using the growing hierarchical self-organizing map

Tangsripairoj

Samadzadeh

2005

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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A software repository, a place where reusable components are stored and searched for, is a key ingredient for instituting and popularizing software reuse. It is vital that a software repository should be well-organized and provide efficient tools for developers to locate reusable components that meet their requirements. The growing hierarchical self-organizing map (GHSOM), an unsupervised learning neural network, is a powerful data mining technique for the clustering and visualization of large and complex data sets. The resulting maps, serving as retrieval interfaces, can be beneficial to developers in obtaining better insight into the structure of a software repository and increasing their understanding of the relationships among software components. The GHSOM, which is an improvement over the basic self-organizing map (SOM), can adapt its architecture during its learning process and expose the hierarchical structure that exists in the original data. In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of the GHSOM for the organization and visualization of a collection of reusable components stored in a software repository, and compare the results with the ones obtained by using the traditional SOM.

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“…Textual descriptions can be drawn from accompanying documents, such as in GURU [28], or they can be extracted from comments and/or identifier names in reusable components [4,8].…”

Section: Reuse Repository Systems Supporting Retrievalmentioning

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Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

Fischer

Reeves

2000

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering: Twenty-First Century Applica

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1 Softw ar e R es e ar ch As so cia te s, In c.3 -1 2 Yotsu ya , Shinjuk u Tok yo 1 6 0-00 0 4, J ap a n + 81 -3 -3 3 57 -9 3 61 yun we n@ cs. co lor ad o. e du G er ha rd Fisch er brent@twinbear.com ABSTRACTAlthough software reuse can improve both the quality and productivity of software development, it will not do so until software developers stop believing that it is not worth their effort to find a component matching their current problem. In addition, if the developers do not anticipate the existence of a given component, they will not even make an effort to find it in the first place.Even the most sophisticated and powerful reuse repositories will not be effective if developers don't anticipate a certain component exists, or don't deem it worthwhile to seek for it. We argue that this crucial barrier to reuse is overcome by integrating active information delivery, which presents information without explicit queries from the user, and reuse repository systems. A prototype system, CodeBroker, illustrates this integration and raises several issues related to software reuse.

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The Reusable Software Library

Cited by 114 publications

References 3 publications

Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation

Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation

Organizing and visualizing software repositories using the growing hierarchical self-organizing map

Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

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