A Java reuse repository for Eclipse using LSI

Author

Lin, Ming-Yang Jerry ; Amor, Robert ; Tempero, Ewan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ.

fYear

2006

Lastpage

362

Abstract

Software reuse is a concept that is frequently mentioned as a way to improve software developers´ productivity. However, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed in order for software reuse to be adopted by developers. One of those issues is providing enough reusable artifacts. The Java Standard API has been quite successful in this, with the latest version having over 3000 classes available. However this raises the issue of finding the right artifact to reuse. With the Java API, this means trawling through the JavaDoc Web pages, which has the risk of not being able to find the right artifact, even though it is in the API. In this paper, we explore the use of latent semantic indexing as a means to index the Java API JavaDoc pages. Specifically, we describe Prophecy, an Eclipse plug-in that presents the Java API as a software repository

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; software reusability; software tools; Eclipse; Java Standard API; Java reuse repository; JavaDoc Web pages; LSI; Prophecy; semantic indexing; software repository; software reuse; Computer science; Documentation; Indexing; Java; Large scale integration; Packaging; Productivity; Programming profession; Software reusability; Web pages; Code Reuse; Latent Semantic Indexing; Software Repositories;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2006. Australian

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

1530-0803

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2551-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2006.5

Filename

1615068