RiSE Project: Towards a Robust Framework for Software Reuse

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RiSE Project Towards a Robust Framework for
Software Reuse

• Eduardo Santana de Almeida

esa2_at_cin.ufpe.br
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
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Agenda

• Motivation
• A Brief survey on Software reuse
• RiSE Project Towards a Robust Framework for
  Software reuse
• Context
• The Repository system
• RiSEs goals
• The Future
• The Present
• Concluding remarks and Future works

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Motivation

• Software reuse is a critical aspect for companies
  interested in the improvements
• Quality
• Productivity
• Costs reduction

But, How to aid companies to perform it?

• Literature
• Domain Engineering
• Component-Based Development
• Software Product Lines

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Motivation (cont.)

• Experiences
• Previous experiences
• Success and Failure models
• Myths and Inhibitors

How to apply it outside its original context?
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Motivation (cont.)

• Research approach
• RiSE Project A robust framework for reuse based
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• Partneship with Industry
• Software reuse surveys academia industry
• Reuse, Processes, Repository
• www.cin.ufpe.br/rise
• Goal To Guide organizations in the adoption of a
  reuse program

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A Brief Survey on Reuse

• The beginning
• NATO Software Engineering Conference (1968)
• Doug Mcllroy said
• the software industry is weakly founded and one
  aspect of this weakness is the absence of a
  software component sub-industry
• After Mcllroy research/evolution DE, CBD, SPL
• Doug Mcllroy also again
• To develop a useful inventory, money and talent
  will be need. Thus, the whole project is an
  improbable one for university research

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Sucess Factors

• Informal research
• Frakes Isoda (1995)
• Management, Measurement, Legal issues, Economics,
  Design for reuse, Libraries
• Glass (1998)
• Lack of components
• Empirical research
• Rine (1998)
• SPL, DE, CBD, Tools ...
• Morisio et. al (2002)
• Reuse processes, Modify non-reuse processes,
  Human factors

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Sucess Factors (cont.)

• Empirical research
• Rothenberger et. al (2003)
• Planning
• Formalized processes
• Management support
• Project similarity
• Common architecture

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RiSE Project Towards a Robust Framework for
Software Reuse

• RiSE Group
• 2 PhDs
• 12 students (4 PhD, 5 MSc, 3 BSc)
• Budget 600.000 (2 years, start Jan 2005)
• Customer Brazilian Government
• Partnership
• Brazilian Software Factory
• www.cin.ufpe.br/ rise

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RiSE Project

• Fundamental step to introduce reuse in companies
• Technical and non-technical aspects

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RiSE Project The Repository System

• Core of the project
• Hard task to research and development
• Main features
• Storage
• Search
• Management
• Distribution
• Load balance .

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But, What are the RiSEs goals?
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This story starts in 2025
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and Currently 2005
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RiSE Initial Solution

• Open source
• Java Projects
• Plug-in Eclipse

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Concluding Remarks and Future works

• Robust framework for software reuse
• Technical and non-technical aspects
• Based on
• Studies related to state-of-the-art
• Real problems
• Academia Industry
• Future works
• Reuse process metrics, cost models,
  reengineering..
• Component certification process
• Repository system
• Tools

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Financial Support
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RiSE Project

• More informations
• www.cin.ufpe.br/rise
• rise_at_cin.ufpe.br

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Thanks
and
Good Luck!!