Cognitive issues in reusing software artifacts

Software productivity has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, but not enough to close the gap between the demands placed on the software industry and what the state of the practice can deliver nothing short of an order of magnitude increase ...

Reuse in the early development phases of an application can reduce the effort of producing specifications and improve their quality. The paper presents the requirement specification phase for object-oriented applications under a reuse approach. Object-...

The authors discuss a commercial knowledge reuse-oriented shell called KwEshell and demonstrate that combining knowledge reuse and case-based reasoning facilitates solving real, large-scale problems.The Yokohama Rubber Company and Fujitsu recently ...