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Object-oriented frameworks are sophisticated software artifacts that significantly impact productivity when building applications in a given domain. However, frameworks are complex and hard to master, and it remains an open problem to find a cost-effective solution for documenting them. This paper presents the case-based approach of FrameDoc to framework documentation and reuse. By means of explicit knowledge representation and CBR, FrameDoc assists a novel user of the framework in the process of building new applications, by maintaining a case base of previous framework instantiations where relevant past cases can be retrieved and reused. The approach proposes both a methodology for framework documentation, and a tool that helps the user when reusing a framework through the knowledge represented in the documentation.
Supported by the Spanish Science and Technology Ministry (MCYT) TIC2002-01961.
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Fernández-Conde, C.J., González-Calero, P.A. (2004). Developing Active Help for Framework Instantiation Through Case-Based Reasoning. In: Bosch, J., Krueger, C. (eds) Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools. ICSR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27799-6_26
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