A method for the classification and retrieval problem of reusable software resources

摘要

One impediment to software reusability is the difficulty in classifying reusable software resources in such a way that they can be retrieved by other people. A method based on encoding descriptive information of reusable software resources is proposed to mitigate that problem. The preliminary experiment to test the feasibility of the proposed method shows positive results. This method has potential to help classify existing software resources for the purpose of future reuse, and specify requirements when users want to retrieve reusable software resources.