Finding Relevant Applications for Prototyping

When gathering requirements for new software projects, it is often cost-effective to find similar applications that can be used as the basis for prototypes rather than building them from scratch. However, finding such sample applications can be difficult, often making prototyping time-consuming and...

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Main Authors: Grechanik, Mark, Conroy, Kevin M., Probst, Katharina A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Feedback
Information analysis
Information retrieval
Information systems > Information retrieval
Information systems > Information systems applications > Data mining
Open source software
Programming profession
Prototypes
Search engines
Smart cards
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > Software management > Software maintenance
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues
Software prototyping
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program reasoning > Program analysis
Theory of computation > Semantics and reasoning > Program semantics
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Summary:When gathering requirements for new software projects, it is often cost-effective to find similar applications that can be used as the basis for prototypes rather than building them from scratch. However, finding such sample applications can be difficult, often making prototyping time-consuming and expensive. We offer a novel approach called Exemplar (EXEcutable exaMPLes ARchive) for finding highly relevant software projects from a large archive of executable applications. Af- ter a programmer enters a query that contains high-level concepts (e.g., toolbar, download, smart card), Exemplar uses information retrieval and program analysis to retrieve applications that implement these concepts. We hypothe- size that Exemplar will be effective and efficient in helping programmers to quickly find highly relevant applications to support prototyping.
ISSN:2160-1852
DOI:10.1109/MSR.2007.9