Achieving a Reuse Perspective within a Component Recovery Process: An Industrial Scale Case Study

Authors:
Andrew Le Gear;Jim Buckley;Brendan Cleary;J. J. Collins;Kieran O'Dea
Affiliations:
University of Limerick, Ireland;University of Limerick, Ireland;University of Limerick, Ireland;University of Limerick, Ireland;QAD Ltd., Plassy Technological Park, Limerick, Ireland
Venue:
IWPC '05 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Identifying elements of existing software that are reused within a system may provide maintainers with valuable insights during system evolution. This paper evaluates an extension of software reconnaissance that can be used to analyse reuse across features in a system, as part of a component recovery process proposed in [A process for transforming portions of existing software forreuse in modern development approaches]. We illustrate and evaluate retrieval of reuse information in this fashion using a large, commercial ERP and warehousing application. Results suggest that the approach scales well in terms of reuse information across features in existing software, providing maintainers with a valuable new perspective on the software system in question.