Software component importance evaluation system
CA 2476585 A1 · Owner: Japan Science And Technology Agency · Inventors: Inoue, Katsuro; Kusumoto, Shinji; Fujiwara, Hikaru
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A system for measuring the importance of reuse of software on the basis of an objective criterion. At a file relationship extracting step (S212) a Java , source code file (230) is analyzed and the class-to-class inheritance is extracted as a reuse relationship. At an SMMT step (S222) the similarity , between Java source code files (230) is calculated. At a step (S224) cluster , analysis is carried out on the basis of the similarity calculated at the SMMT step (S222), and the files are categorized into M component groups. Based on the results of the cluster analysis (S224) and the extraction of the relationship between files (S212), the relationship between the component groups is …
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- Filed October 2, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 2, 2022.
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