Special Issue on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era

摘要

Software reuse is an established key-solution for increasing software development productivity and decreasing the number of software defects. In light of the large data footprint that is produced along software development and evolution, in terms of both process (e.g., feature requests, issue tracking, emails, developers' communication, etc.) and product data (e.g., commits, source code elements, design artifacts, quality metrics, etc.), we identify an opportunity to revisit or reintroduce reuse-related practices, methods, tools, and empirical evidence facilitating the aforementioned big data sources. Driven by this opportunity, the theme of this Special Issue (SI) is "Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era". The term "Systems" was added to the name of the SI to emphasize the role of systems engineering in reuse and to highlight the relevance of reuse to cyber physical systems, sociotechnical systems, autonomous systems, intelligent systems, embedded systems, Internet of Things, systems of systems, and Industry 4.0 apps.