Towards specifying pragmatic software reuse
Paper in proceeding, 2015

© 2015 ACM. Software reuse has numerous benefits, including reduced de-velopment time, defect density, and increased developer pro-ductivity. Numerous approaches to software reuse have been developed and we can divide them into two categories: pre-planned approaches, where software artifacts are developed to be reused; and pragmatic approaches, that facilitate the reuse of software artifacts not necessarily designed for reuse. In this paper, we specify the general approach to pragmatic software reuse, which consists of three steps:i) feature loca-tion, which identifies the source code of an individual fea-ture; ii) code analysis and modification, which fixes conicts that can happen when achieving reuse; and iii) feature in-tegration, which achieves reuse by integrating code into the target system. We also discuss how certain steps in the process are used in current state-of-The-Art pragmatic reuse approaches. In addition, based on the experience of devel-oping an approach to pragmatically reusing web application features, we identify general challenges in pragmatic reuse approaches.

Web Applications

Reuse

Author

J. Maras

University of Split

M. Štula

University of Split

Ivica Crnkovic

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, ECSAW 2015; 07-11-September-2015, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series)

Vol. 07-11-September-2015 Art. no a54-
978-145033393-1 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1145/2797433.2797489

ISBN

978-145033393-1

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