Semantic component retrieval in software engineering [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Oliver Hummel

Semantic Component Retrievalin Software EngineeringInauguraldissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften derUniversität Mannheimvorgelegt vonDiplom-Informatiker Oliver Hummelaus Neustadt an der WeinstraßeMannheim, 2008Dekan: Prof. Dr. Matthias Krause, Universität MannheimReferent: Prof. Dr. Colin Atkinson, Universität MannheimKorreferent: Prof. Dr. Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen UniversityTag der mündlichen Prüfung: 11.03.20084 - AbstractIn the early days of programming the concept of subroutines, and through this software reuse, was invented tospare limited hardware resources. Since then software systems have become increasingly complex and developingthem would not have been possible without reusable software elements such as standard libraries and frameworks.Furthermore, other approaches commonly subsumed under the umbrella of software reuse such as product linesand design patterns have become very successful in recent years. However, there are still no software componentmarkets available that would make buying software components as simple as buying parts in a do-it-yourselfhardware store and millions of software fragments are still lying un(re)used in configuration managementrepositories all over the world.