An Empirical Study of Representation Methods for Reusable Software Components

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 617-630

  Pole, Thomas P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

Author keywords

component indexing; component understanding; database; empirical; enumerated classification; experimentation; faceted classification; information storage and retrieval; keyword searching; methods; reuse libraries; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNIX; USER INTERFACES;

COMPONENT UNDERSTANDING; EMPIRICAL METHODS; ENUMERATED CLASSIFICATION; KEYWORD SEARCHING; REPRESENTATION METHODS; REUSABLE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0028482317     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.310671     Document Type: Article

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