Case-based Reuse with Partial Requirements Specifications

A case-based approach allows reuse without the usual and significant effort for making software explicitly reusable. We even support such reuse for only partially developed requirements, since it allows reuse already without the need to develop a “complete” specification first. The solution information (models and code) of (one of) the most similar problems can then be taken for reuse and adapted to the newly specified requirements. And even the specification of these new requirements can be facilitated, since the retrieved software case contains related requirements, which may be reused as well.