A SEMI-AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR OPEN SOURCE CODE REUSE

Apostolos Kritikos, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos

2010

Abstract

It is clear that Free Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) has been demonstrating increasing importance continually for some years now. As a result, millions of lines of code are becoming available online. In many cases, this code, is carefully designed, implemented, tested and therefore represents a very good option for reusability. Lately, more and more companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), are reusing open source code to develop their own software. Source code forges such as SourceForge, Google Code etc., serve as component pools providing plenty of alternatives. In this work we are proposing a semi-automated reuse process model for discovering open source code online, based on the requirements of the system under design. This model illustrates the greedy approach of a reuse engineer, who wishes to reuse as much code as he can and implement the least possible.

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in Harvard Style

Kritikos A., Kakarontzas G. and Stamelos I. (2010). A SEMI-AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR OPEN SOURCE CODE REUSE . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 179-185. DOI: 10.5220/0002999401790185

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase10,
author={Apostolos Kritikos and George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos},
title={A SEMI-AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR OPEN SOURCE CODE REUSE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={179-185},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002999401790185},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A SEMI-AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR OPEN SOURCE CODE REUSE
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Kritikos A.
AU - Kakarontzas G.
AU - Stamelos I.
PY - 2010
SP - 179
EP - 185
DO - 10.5220/0002999401790185