Towards the Development of Integrated Reuse Environments for UML Artifacts
Moataz Ahmed, Saudi Arabia · 2011
Abstract—Systematic software reuse is recognized to achieve better software, faster and at a lower cost. The benefits of reuse can be maximized if types of early stage software artifacts can be easily reused. In early-stage reuse, once a match is found, all related later stages artifacts for the match can also be reused. However, the development of integrated reuse environments to allow managing and reusing repositories of early stage artifacts has not caught adequate attention of researchers yet. In response to this problem, we propose an approach to the development of environments integrated with CASE tools and capable facilitating early-stage artifacts reuse. Successful implementation of such environments is expected to improve the software quality and developers productivity. Keywords-early-stage artifacts; design reuse; integrated reuse environment; similarity metrics; multi-view similarity. I.