Software reuse costs and benefits have been investigated in several primary studies, which have been aggregated in multiple secondary studies as well. However, existing secondary studies on software reuse have not critically appraised ...

• Barriers to app installation impede device longevity.
• Relatively few apps could be downloaded directly onto a vintage device.
• Many apps could be downloaded indirectly.
• 61.3% of apps (downloaded directly or indirectly) were ...

This extended paper contributes a methodology and a detailed analysis of app installation and functionality on a ‘vintage’ device. Experimental results are presented that demonstrate barriers to the reuse of vintage Apple devices, and solutions ...

Software system development is a difficult, error-prone, and time-consuming task. Pattern-based development has been successfully used to produce high-quality software to address these concerns. Patterns actually document expert knowledge on how ...

Technical debt is a metaphor to guide the identification, measurement, and general management of decisions that are appropriate in the short term but create obstacles in the future evolution and maintenance of systems. Variability management, ...

• A field study analyzing issues of opportunistic reuse to create software variants.
• Evidences show that opportunistic reuse complicates the evolution of the variants.
• The variability debt phenomenon for opportunistic reuse is ...

Privacy-compliant software development has received substantial attention in recent years, especially with the growth of digital services and the emergence of privacy regulations and standards. The increasing popularity of open-source ...

Software reusability mechanisms, like inheritance and delegation in Object-Oriented programming, are widely recognized as key instruments of software design that reduce the risks of source code being affected by defects, other than to reduce the ...

Software reuse is a common practice that aims to reduce costs and effort, while improving quality and productivity. However, it also raises challenges of retrieving existing artifacts and adapting them to the given context. Sometimes, the most ...

Technical debt is a metaphor to guide the identification, measurement, and general management of decisions that were mostly appropriate in the short term but created obstacles mainly for the evolution and maintenance of systems. Variability management, ...

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) takes significant time and resources. A practice for expedited deployment is to use pre-trained deep neural networks (PTNNs), often from model zoos--collections of PTNNs; yet, the reliability of model zoos remains ...

This paper contributes a methodology and analysis of application installation and function on a ‘vintage’ device. Attempts were made to download, install, open, and run 230 apps on an Apple iPad Mini tablet of approximately nine years old. The ...

The rapid growth of mobile applications development and usage raises several new challenges to developers as they need to respond quickly to the users’ needs in a world of continuous changes. Developers often use third-party libraries to add ...

The advent of modeling in software engineering, like other engineering fields, has revolutionized the formalism and pace of software development. However, software applications are not built from scratch, instead, ...

• Software reuse improves productivity and software quality.
• When structural ...

Organizations’ business processes need to be adapted in response to changing internal and external environments, which are becoming increasingly complex. We target in this research work the exploitation of a software capability profile based on ...

Traceability allows engineers to trace and monitor the relationships between software artifacts. Monitoring these relationships is vital to many software engineering activities such as software understanding and reuse. Grasping these relationships ...

Hyrum’s law states a common observation in the software industry: “With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by ...

• A systematic large-scale analysis of 2,190,525 Maven client–API relations.
• ...

Software reuse is a good way to prove the quality and releasing cycle of software product. In this paper, we propose a software reuse development method based on base capability component adaptation (BCCA) model. The atomic capabilities are divided into ...

Build automation tools and package managers have a profound influence on software development. They facilitate the reuse of third-party libraries, support a clear separation between the application’s code and its external dependencies, and ...

A common strategy for modernizing legacy systems is to migrate them to service-oriented architecture (SOA). A key step in the migration process is the identification of reusable functionalities in the system that qualify as candidate services in ...

Modern software development is increasingly dependent on components, libraries, and frameworks coming from third-party vendors or open-source suppliers and made available through a number of platforms (or forges). This way of writing software puts an ...

Software reuse is an important and crucial quality attribute in modern software engineering, where almost all software projects, open source or commercial, no matter small or ultra-large, source code reuse in one way or another. Although software ...