A prolific approach towards automating component repository search

Abstract

Incorporating software reuse in developing new software has been both a pertinent and prominent development practice. To facilitate component reuse effectively component repositories are build that are comprised of prevalent components for its future reusability. This paper focuses on the significance of reuse repository and the associated search techniques viz. keyword-based search and signature matching in a reasoned manner by exemplifying the working methodology of these techniques via its automated implementation. To address the purpose a new tool has been developed name ARE (Automated Repository Exploration) ver. 1.0.0. Readers may note that the tool (ver. 1.0.0) was initially developed with the capability to automate keyword-based search technique, and, has recently been updated with the potential of automated signature matching search technique leading its upgrade to ver. 1.0.1.