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Goal-oriented and similarity-based retrieval of software engineering experienceware

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Abstract

For the successful reuse of software engineering know-how in practice, useful and appropriate experienceware has to be retrieved from a corporate memory. As support is required for different processes, purposes, and environments, with usefulness of retrieved experiences depends mainly on the particular reuse situation. Thus, a flexible retrieval method and similarity measure is required, which can continuously be tailored to specific situations based on feedback from its application in practice. This paper proposes a case-based approach for the retrieval of software engineering experienceware taking into account those specific characteristics of the software engineering domain, such as the lack of explicit domain models in practice, diversity of environments and software processes to be experiences. The approach is illustrated through its application in the REMEX system, a prototypical Experience Base application for the experiencebased support of the planning of software measurement programs.

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  1. Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, 88049-00, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim & Ricardo M. Barcia

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

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von Wangenheim, C.G., Althoff, KD., Barcia, R.M. (2000). Goal-oriented and similarity-based retrieval of software engineering experienceware. In: Ruhe, G., Bomarius, F. (eds) Learning Software Organizations. SEKE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1756. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101417

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