Object technology and reuse: lessons from early adopters

Fichman, Robert G.; Kemerer, Chris F.

doi:10.1109/2.625304

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“…Devanbu et al [5] report that because developers are unaware of reusable components, they repeatedly re-implement the same function-in one case, this occurred ten times. This kind of behavior is also observed as typical among the four companies investigated in [9]. From the experience of promoting reuse, Rosenbaum and DuCastel [34] conclude that making components known to developers is a key factor for successful reuse.…”

Section: Information Islands In Reuse Repositorymentioning

confidence: 81%

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Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

Fischer

Reeves

2000

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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1 Softw ar e R es e ar ch As so cia te s, In c.3 -1 2 Yotsu ya , Shinjuk u Tok yo 1 6 0-00 0 4, J ap a n + 81 -3 -3 3 57 -9 3 61 yun we n@ cs. co lor ad o. e du G er ha rd Fisch er brent@twinbear.com ABSTRACTAlthough software reuse can improve both the quality and productivity of software development, it will not do so until software developers stop believing that it is not worth their effort to find a component matching their current problem. In addition, if the developers do not anticipate the existence of a given component, they will not even make an effort to find it in the first place.Even the most sophisticated and powerful reuse repositories will not be effective if developers don't anticipate a certain component exists, or don't deem it worthwhile to seek for it. We argue that this crucial barrier to reuse is overcome by integrating active information delivery, which presents information without explicit queries from the user, and reuse repository systems. A prototype system, CodeBroker, illustrates this integration and raises several issues related to software reuse.

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Section: Information Islands In Reuse Repositorymentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Informal information includes structural indentation, comments, and identifier names. Comments and identifier names are important beacons for the understanding of programs, because they reveal the important concepts of programs [2,9,29].…”

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Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

Fischer

Reeves

2000

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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“…Such high levels of code reuse are surprising-how are these levels achievable while others have experienced far less [12]? One possibility is the problem domain, since robotic workcells offer many opportunities for exploiting standardization of operations (e.g., the machine interface) and the underlying policies (e.g., machine step scheduling).…”

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Applying a component-based software architecture to robotic workcell applications

Beck

Reagin

Sweeny

et al. 2000

IEEE Trans. Robot. Automat.

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This paper presents the results of applying a component-based control software architecture to robotic workcell applications. Robotic workcells are introduced, the underlying technology is discussed, and an overview of the software architecture is presented. Next, the results and experiences of applying the architecture to seven industrial applications are described in detail. As the results indicate, software reuse levels in excess of 90% are achieved. The paper concludes with a summary and discussion of future work.Index Terms-Component-based software, flexible manufacturing systems, robotic workcells.

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“…There are also several studies on reusability of object-oriented systems (e.g. [10], [5]). However, studies on reusability of class libraries are rare.…”

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Reusability Analysis of Four Standard Object-Oriented Class Libraries

Araban

Sajeev

2006

Software Engineering Research and Applications

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Abstract. Class libraries play a key role in object-oriented paradigm. They provide, by and large, the most commonly reused components in object-oriented environments. In this paper, we use a number of metrics to study reusability of four standard class libraries of two objectoriented languages; namely Java and Eiffel. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate how different design philosophies of the two languages have affected structural design and organization of their standard libraries that in turn might have affected their reusability with regards to Ease of Reuse and Design with Reuse. Our study concludes that within limits of our measurements, the Java libraries are easy to reuse whereas Eiffel libraries are better designed with reuse. We observe that whilst design with reuse may make class libraries extensible and maintainable, but it does not necessarily make them easy to reuse.

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Object technology and reuse: lessons from early adopters

Cited by 65 publications

References 9 publications

Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems

Applying a component-based software architecture to robotic workcell applications

Reusability Analysis of Four Standard Object-Oriented Class Libraries

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