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As contemporary software development relies more on software reuse, several systems have been designed to automate the process of finding reusable software components from online sources and integrating them to one’s source code. However, these systems focus on whether the proposed components cover the desired functionality, without assessing also their reusability. In this chapter, we present a recommendation system for source code components that covers both the functional and the quality aspects of component reuse. Our system, which is named QualBoa, retrieves components from online repositories and reports their functional matching to the query as well as their reusability score, which is based on configurable thresholds of source code metrics. Upon providing an example usage scenario and evaluating QualBoa, we conclude that it is effective for recommending reusable source code.
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Diamantopoulos, T., Symeonidis, A.L. (2020). Providing Reusability-Aware Recommendations. In: Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30106-4_9
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