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Promoting Reuse with Active Reuse Repository Systems

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Software Reuse: Advances in Software Reusability (ICSR 2000)

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Software component-based reuse is difficult for software developers to adopt because first they must know what components exist in a reuse repository and then they must know how to retrieve them easily. This paper describes the concept and implementation of active reuse repository systems that address the above two issues. Active reuse repository systems employ active information delivery mechanisms to deliver potentially reusable components that are relevant to the current development task. They can help software developers reuse components they did not even know existed. They can also greatly reduce the cost of component location because software developers need neither to specify reuse queries explicitly, nor to switch working contexts back and forth between development environments and reuse repository systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, CB 430, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309-0430, USA

    Yunwen Ye & Gerhard Fischer

  2. Software Engineering Laboratory, Software Research Associates, Inc., 3-12 Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 160-0004, Japan

    Yunwen Ye

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Ye, Y., Fischer, G. (2000). Promoting Reuse with Active Reuse Repository Systems. In: Frakes, W.B. (eds) Software Reuse: Advances in Software Reusability. ICSR 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1844. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44995-9_18

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