Context-aware browsing of large component repositories

Author

Ye, Yunwen ; Fischer, Gerhard

Author_Institution

SRA Key Technol. Lab., Inc, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

26-29 Nov. 2001

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

106

Abstract

The paper proposes a novel approach to locating software components from a large component repository: context-aware browsing. Without any explicit input from software developers, this approach automatically locates and presents a list of software components that could possibly be used in the current development situation. This automation of the component location process not only greatly reduces the search space of components so that software developers can easily browse and choose the desired components, but also enables software developers to use components whose existence they do not even anticipate. A software agent that supports context-aware browsing has been developed and evaluated.

Keywords

automatic programming; information retrieval; object-oriented programming; software agents; software libraries; component location process; context-aware browsing; development situation; large component repositories; search space; software agent; software components; software developers; Application software; Automation; Java; Laboratories; Packaging; Productivity; Programming; Software agents; Software libraries; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automated Software Engineering, 2001. (ASE 2001). Proceedings. 16th Annual International Conference on

ISSN

1938-4300

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1426-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASE.2001.989795

Filename

989795