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Achieving Software Reuse and Integration in a Large-scale Software Development Company: Practical Experience of the Lion Project

Authors:

Maria Consuelo Franky,

Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal,

Leonardo Giral,

Andrea Barraza-Urbina,

Angee ZambranoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 40, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/2788630.2788643

Published: 28 July 2015 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents the practical experience and results of the Lion Project, which aimed to improve software development times at Heinsohn Business Technology (HBT), a large-scale Colombian software development company. The main result of this project is the LionWizard Framework, a set of libraries and tools with a focus on large-scale software reuse and integration. The Lion- Wizard Framework integrates all of the existing libraries at HBT using Maven and provides a Wizard. The latter uses code generation and program transformation to automatically integrate all of the required components into an initial codebase in Java EE. The Wizard provides sufficient exibility to seamlessly integrate future components into the development process. Before the Lion Project, software developers required several days of even weeks to integrate all of the required components into a code base for each project. This new framework reduces those times to a few hours.

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Franky MPavlich-Mariscal JOlarte JAcero MZambrano ACamargo JPinzon J(2015)ISML: A language and MDE environment to model and generate web applications with integration of existing components2015 10th Computing Colombian Conference (10CCC)10.1109/ColumbianCC.2015.7333403(100-107)Online publication date: Sep-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ColumbianCC.2015.7333403

Index Terms

Achieving Software Reuse and Integration in a Large-scale Software Development Company: Practical Experience of the Lion Project
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools

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DOI:10.1145/2788630

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Hassan FWang XUchitel SOrso ARobillard M(2017)Mining readme files to support automatic building of Java projects in software repositoriesProceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.114(277-279)Online publication date: 20-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.114
Franky MPavlich-Mariscal JOlarte JAcero MZambrano ACamargo JPinzon J(2015)ISML: A language and MDE environment to model and generate web applications with integration of existing components2015 10th Computing Colombian Conference (10CCC)10.1109/ColumbianCC.2015.7333403(100-107)Online publication date: Sep-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ColumbianCC.2015.7333403

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