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ROSE-ADA: a method and a tool to help reuse of Ada codes

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We present in this paper a method and a tool to help retrieval and adaptation of Ada reusable components. Starting from a goal specification, expressed as a hierarchy of Ada package specifications, a base of reusable components is filtered in order to extract the components which correspond to the goal specification, modulo a renaming and the addition of some subprograms. The filtering method is based on a pattern matching on the profile of the subprograms. Once a component is selected, the renaming is built by the system with a little help from the user when there are some ambiguities. After that the adapted code is automatically built by encapsulating the code of the reused components into a set of packages, which behave exactly like the goal specification. The code of the reused components is absolutely not modified; this allows to keep the quality level of the reused code and to factorize the maintenance.

This tool, which was never intended to be a complete reuse environment, is integrated into the ESF-ROSE reuse system.

This work was funded by the Eurêka Software Factory project.

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Badaro, N., Moineau, T. (1991). ROSE-ADA: a method and a tool to help reuse of Ada codes. In: Christodoulakis, D. (eds) Ada: The Choice for '92. Ada-Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018503

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