Software component retrieval using rough sets

Abstract

Software reusability is one of the important mechanisms needed to maintain its quality and productivity. Even though the candidate components are available in the repository to be reused, software engineers prefer to develop the system from scratch. There exists fear of reuse because the developers are not sure whether candidate component will work. In this paper, first the focus is on retrieving the desired components based on rule generation using rough sets. If the component is not found, then it can be developed and stored in repository. Secondly, uncertainty in identifying the desired component is addressed and an approach to model such uncertainty is proposed. Rough set exploration system (RSES) tool is used to simulate the results on certain behaviors of banking domain.