Jigsaw: a tool for the small-scale reuse of source code

Authors:
Rylan Cottrell;Robert J. Walker;Jörg Denzinger
Affiliations:
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Venue:
Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code. Due to the small scale of such tasks, the overhead in reusing source code can quickly outweigh the benefits. Existing approaches focus on locating source code for reuse but do not support the integration of the located code within the developer's system, thereby leaving the developer with the burden of performing these steps manually. This paper presents a tool, called Jigsaw, that uses the developer's context to help integrate the reused source code into the developer's own source code.