Software reuse: Some positive experiences (and sweeping conclusions)

Author

Singleton, Paul ; Brereton, Pearl

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Keele Univ., Newcastle, Staff, UK

fYear

1993

fDate

7-9 Jul 1993

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

173

Abstract

Describes a software repository and development environment established to support prototyping and experimentation within our research group (which is primarily concerned with the application of knowledge-base techniques to software engineering). We claim an encouraging degree of software reuse, and consider (to various depths) four aspects of our approach which support this: programming language characteristics which affect component reusability; fine-grained component storage; keyword-based indexing and retrieval of reuse candidates; and tools for specializing reusable components

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; indexing; knowledge based systems; programming environments; programming languages; software libraries; software prototyping; software reusability; component reusability; component specification; fine-grained component storage; keyword based retrieval; keyword-based indexing; knowledge-base techniques; positive experiences; programming language characteristics; prototyping; reuse candidates; software development environment; software engineering; software repository; software reuse; Application software; Computer languages; Embedded software; Indexing; Programming profession; Prototypes; Quadratic programming; Software prototyping; Software reusability; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Environments Conference, 1993. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Reading

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4460-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEE.1993.388411

Filename

388411