From specification to experimentation: a software component search engine architecture

  • Authors:

  • Vinicius Cardoso Garcia;Daniel Lucrédio;Frederico Araujo Durão;Eduardo Cruz Reis Santos;Eduardo Santana de Almeida;Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes;Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira

  • Affiliations:

  • Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco & C.E.S.A.R. – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems;Institute of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, São Paulo University;Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco & C.E.S.A.R. – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems;Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco & C.E.S.A.R. – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems;Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco & C.E.S.A.R. – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems;Institute of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, São Paulo University;Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco & C.E.S.A.R. – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems

  • Venue:
  • CBSE'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Component-Based Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a software component search engine, from the early specification and design steps to two experiments performed to evaluate its performance. After the experience gained from the use of this first version, several improvements were introduced. The current version of the engine combines text mining and facet-based search. The experiments indicated, so far, that using these two techniques together is better than using them separately. From the experience obtained in these experiments and in industrial tests, we point out possible improvements and future research directions, which are presented and discussed at the end of the paper.