A REPERTORY GRID APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENTS CLASSIFICATION RETRIEVAL

ABSTRACT Software reuse is an important approach to increase software quality and productivity. There are many factors that may affect the result of software reuse. Among them, software component classification and retrieval are two important factors. Identifying the major component attributes is a necessary condition for creating a high efficiency component classification and retrieval. In this paper, we define a component attribute set and its major operations to identify the relationships between two components. In order to increase the efficiency of software reuse, we apply the repertory grid technique which is a more popular skill in knowledge acquisition tools to the component classification and retrieval. According to the identified component relationships and the concept of the repertory grid technique, the component classification model can be created, the reasonable candidate component ranking approach can be presented, and an algorithm for selecting a set of components with combination potentia...