The Architecture of a Repository System for Software Component Reuse.

Speaker: Basem Y Alkazemi

Abstract

Software component reuse is of obvious importance to the software engineering process, and is increasing in prominence due to the highly successful open-source code movement. While open-source code is, by its very nature, available for re-use, facilities for finding components that fits an engineer’s needs are somewhat limited. Repositories for open-source code are available on the world-wide web, and work well if you know what you are looking for. However, such repositories are more problematical for unstructured searching or browsing, or for assisting in the reuse of part of an open-source code system that has been deposited in the repository. This talk presents a repository for open-source code that aims to further promote the identification and reuse of software components.