Abstract :
Looks into a generalized approach to reusing software artifacts (i.e. requirements, functional specifications, plans, designs, code, build scripts, test cases, installation scripts, user manuals, etc.). If we consider each software artifact as a “document”, we can then provide the appropriate structure to the documents from which we can perform the appropriate processing and reuse of the software artifacts (without limiting it to just code reuse). This approach takes advantage of the W3C Recommendation for structured documents called XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This paper also shows several uses of this approach applied to software development
Keywords :
page description languages; software reusability; system documentation; user manuals; Extensible Markup Language; W3C Recommendation; XML; build scripts; code reuse; document structure; domain-specific toolkits; functional specifications; installation scripts; software artifact reuse; software designs; software development; software document reuse; software plans; software requirements; software test cases; structured documents; user manuals; Ontologies; Programming; Read only memory; Software systems; Software tools; Testing; XML;
