Applying the Textual Entailment approach to automatic reusable software

Software reuse is the use of software resources from all stages of the software development process in new applications. This paper introduces a novel framework that helps to identify automatically the segments of software that can be reused in building new software. This framework is based on a UML use-case textual specification and a recent natural language processing technique called Textual Entailment. This approach will reduce software development cycle time and cost. In addition, it improves the software quality.