A Method Based on Naming Similarity to Identify Reuse Opportunities iSys | A Method Based on Naming Similarity to Identify Reuse Opportunities

J Oliveira, E Fernandes, M Souza, E Figueiredo
2017 unpublished
Software reuse is a development strategy in which existing software components are used to implement new software systems. There are many advantages of applying software reuse, such as minimization of development efforts and improvement of software quality. A few previous work propose methods for recommendation of reuse opportunities. In this paper, we propose a method for identification and recommendation of reuse opportunities based on the similarity of the names of classes. Our method,
more » ... JReuse, computes a similarity function to identify similarly named classes from a set of systems from a specific domain. The identified classes compose a repository with reuse opportunities. We also present a prototype tool to support the proposed method. We applied our method, through the tool, to 72 systems, collected from GitHub, of four different domains: accounting, restaurant, hospital, and e-commerce. In total, these systems have 1,567,337 lines of code and 12,598 classes. As a result, we observe that JReuse is able to identify and recommend the main, most frequent classes per domain.
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