Case-Based Reuse of Software Examplets

Markus Grabert; Derek Bridge

doi:10.3217/jucs-009-07-0627

JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 9(7): 627-640, doi: 10.3217/jucs-009-07-0627

Case-Based Reuse of Software Examplets

Markus Grabert^‡, Derek Bridge^‡

‡ University College Cork, Ireland

Corresponding author: Markus Grabert ( m.grabert@cs.ucc.ie )

This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.

Citation: Grabert M, Bridge D (2003) Case-Based Reuse of Software Examplets. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 9(7): 627-640. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-009-07-0627

Abstract

We present a software tool for examplet reuse. We define examplets to be goal-directed snippets of source code, often written for tutorial purposes, that show how to use program library facilities to achieve some task. Our tool allows users to specify both their goal (in free text) and their `situation (the source code on which they are working). The system combines text retrieval and spreading activation through a semantic net representation of the source code.

Keywords

software reuse, casebased reasoning, retrieval