RiSE Project: Towards a Robust Framework for Software Reuse

Eduardo Santana de Almeida

Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

esa2@cin.ufpe.br

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Agenda

Motivation A Brief survey on Software reuse RiSE Project: Towards a Robust Framework for Software reuse

Context The Repository system

RiSE’s goals The Future The Present

Concluding remarks and Future works

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Motivation

Software reuse is a critical aspect for companies interested in the improvements Quality Productivity Costs reduction

But, How to aid companies to perform it? Literature

Domain Engineering Component-Based Development Software Product Lines

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Motivation (cont.)

Experiences Previous experiences Success and Failure models Myths and Inhibitors

How to apply it outside its original context?

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Motivation (cont.)

Research approach: RiSE Project: A robust framework for reuse based on:

Partneship with IndustrySoftware reuse surveys {academia + industry}

Reuse, Processes, Repositorywww.cin.ufpe.br/~rise

Goal: To Guide organizations in the adoption of a reuse program

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A Brief Survey on Reuse

The beginning: NATO Software Engineering Conference (1968)

Doug Mcllroy said: “the software industry is weakly founded and

one aspect of this weakness is the absence of a software component sub-industry”

After Mcllroy: research/evolution {DE, CBD, SPL}Doug Mcllroy also again:

“To develop a useful inventory, money and talent will be need. Thus, the whole project is an improbable one for university research”

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Sucess Factors

Informal research Frakes & Isoda (1995)

Management, Measurement, Legal issues, Economics, Design for reuse, Libraries

Glass (1998) Lack of components

Empirical research Rine (1998)

SPL, DE, CBD, Tools ...

Morisio et. al (2002) Reuse processes, Modify non-reuse processes, Human

factors

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Sucess Factors (cont.)

Empirical research Rothenberger et. al (2003)

PlanningFormalized processesManagement supportProject similarityCommon architecture

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RiSE Project: Towards a Robust Framework for Software Reuse

RiSE Group 2 PhDs 12 students (4 PhD, 5 MSc, 3 BSc) Budget: $600.000 (2 years, start: Jan 2005) Customer: Brazilian Government Partnership

Brazilian Software Factory www.cin.ufpe.br/ ~rise

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RiSE Project

Fundamental step to introduce reuse in companies

Technical and non-technical aspects

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RiSE Project: The Repository System

Core of the project Hard task to research and development

Main features Storage Search Management Distribution Load balance ….

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But, What are the RiSE’s goals?

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This story

starts in 2025

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…and Currently

2005

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RiSE {Initial} Solution

Open source Java Projects Plug-in Eclipse

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Concluding Remarks and Future works

Robust framework for software reuse Technical and non-technical aspects Based on:

Studies related to state-of-the-art Real problems

Academia + Industry Future works

Reuse process {metrics, cost models, reengineering..} Component certification process Repository system Tools

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Financial Support

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RiSE Project

More informations: www.cin.ufpe.br/~rise rise@cin.ufpe.br

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Thanks

and

Good Luck!!