HEURISTIC ORGANIZATION AND DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES

In this paper we address the problem of software classification and, based on an algorithm for software classification through software repository clustering, we propose a method which performs automatic domain analysis on a given software collection. The described method relies on observations made after a tedious manual domain analysis is performed. Also, it requires a heuristic that can compute distances between two software components without any interference from the reuser.

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Software Atom: An approach towards software components structuring to improve reusability

Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences ◽

10.30537/sjcms.v1i2.31 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 66

Author(s):

Muhammad Hussain Mughal ◽

Zubair Ahmed Shaikh

Keyword(s):

Periodic Table ◽

Large Scale ◽

Search Space ◽

Optimization Techniques ◽

Software Components ◽

Unique Identifier ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Software Reusability ◽

Software Repository ◽

Software Classification

Diversity of application domain compelled to design sustainable classification scheme for significantly amassing software repository. The atomic reusable software components are articulated to improve the software component reusability in volatile industry. Numerous approaches of software classification have been proposed over past decades. Each approach has some limitations related to coupling and cohesion. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach by constituting the software based on radical functionalities to improve software reusability. We analyze the element's semantics in Periodic Table used in chemistry to design our classification approach, and present this approach using tree-based classification to curtail software repository search space complexity and further refined based on semantic search techniques. We developed a Global unique Identifier (GUID) for indexing the functions and related components. We have exploited the correlation between chemistry element and software elements to simulate one to one mapping between them. Our approach is inspired from sustainability chemical periodic table. We have proposed software periodic table (SPT) representing atomic software components extracted from real application software. Based on SPT classified repository tree parsing & extraction to enable the user to program their software by customizing the ingredients of software requirements. The classified repository of software ingredients assist user to exploits their requirements to software engineer and enable requirement engineer to develop a rapid large-scale prototype with great essence. Furthermore, we would predict the usability of the categorized repository based on feedback of users. The continuous evolution of that proposed repository will be fine-tuned based on utilization and SPT would be gradually optimized by ant colony optimization techniques. Succinctly would provoke automating the software development process.

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Domain analysis for mining software repositories: Towards feature-based DSL construction

2013 4th International Workshop on Product LinE Approaches in Software Engineering (PLEASE) ◽

10.1109/please.2013.6608663 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Changyun Huang ◽

Kazuhiro Yamashita ◽

Yasutaka Kamei ◽

Kenji Hisazumi ◽

Naoyasu Ubayashi

Keyword(s):

Domain Analysis ◽

Mining Software Repositories ◽

Software Repositories ◽

Feature Based

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Reusing and Retrieving Software Components: An Object-Oriented Domain Analysis Approach

OOIS’94 ◽

10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_10 ◽

1995 ◽

pp. 134-137

Author(s):

Muthu Ramachandran ◽

Adil Al-Yasiri

Keyword(s):

Object Oriented ◽

Domain Analysis ◽

Analysis Approach ◽

Software Components

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Reconstructing de facto software development methods

Computer Science and Information Systems ◽

10.2298/csis180226038j ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 75-104

Author(s):

Marko Jankovic ◽

Slavko Zitnik ◽

Marko Bajec

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Development Process ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Software Repositories ◽

Complex Process ◽

Software Repository ◽

Develop Software ◽

Development Methods ◽

Substantial Effort ◽

Development Practice

Software development is a complex process that requires disciplined engineering approaches. Empirical studies show that companies still don?t document their development practice, or if they do, these are not up-to-date and do not reflect how they really develop software. The main objective of this paper is to propose an approach that can help companies in documenting their real development practice. Comparing to existing approaches that require substantial effort on the side of project members, our approach extracts information on development practice directly from software repositories. Five companies have been studied to identify information that can be retrieved from software repositories. Based on this, an approach to reconstruct development practice has been developed. The approach has been evaluated on a real software repository shared by an additional company. The results confirm that software repository information suffice for the reconstruction of various aspects of development process, i.e. disciplines, activities, roles, and artifacts.

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