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Authors:
Oliver Hummel
Werner Janjic
Keywords: component-based software development; software reuse; software search; software retrieval; reference collection
Abstract:
The idea of component-based software reuse as a cornerstone of a more engineering-like approach to software development has been around for more than four decades. Since software and its building blocks represent an important and valuable intellectual asset for most companies, researchers have been struggling for nearly the same time to get their hands on a substantial amount of reusable material to experi¬ment with. Only the advent of the open source movement miti¬gated this problem considerably and hence inspired interesting new research in this area within the last decade. However, basically all novel software retrieval solutions of that period have been developed and evaluated independently from each other and are thus by no means comparable with one another. To address this flaw, an initiative was started to foster the creation of a reference reuse collection for software search and retrieval, which is intended as a common baseline for future comparison of software retrieval systems. In this paper we explain the motivation for this initiative, identify and discuss important foundations as well as open issues and present an initial sketch of architecture, content and practical prere¬quisites of such a collection.
Pages: 450 to 458
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: November 18, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4235
ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012