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Software development will remain something of a handcraft as long as each new program is developed from scratch, without using existing software components. On the other hand, software components present such a diversity of functional properties that the problem of storing them and retrieving them is very difficult. In this paper we propose a structure for a data base of software components, and discuss how this structure addresses some of the issues pertaining to the storage and retrieval of software components.
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Boudriga, N., Mili, A. (1990). A Database of Software Components: An Algebraic Structure and Its Implementation. In: Tjoa, A.M., Wagner, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7553-8_26
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