Towards a Unified Software Component Representation

摘要

The literature of reusable software artifact retrieval systems is huge. An amazing number of software artifact representations in the context of reusable software retrieval systems have appeared in the literature. This paper has three main contributions. First, it surveys these representations. Second, it proposes a schema for a unified, parameterized similarity metric for reusable software artifacts based on a unified representation. Third, it presents a possible structural component of the schema.