Concern based mining of heterogeneous software repositories

ABSTRACT

In the current trend of software engineering, software systems are viewed as clusters of overlapping structures representing various concerns, covering heterogeneous artifacts like models, code, resource files etc. In those cases, adequate search mechanisms for software repositories should be based on such fragmented nature of software systems, allowing concern-oriented queries on the system data. For this purpose, we propose a conceptual framework for a concern-oriented query language for software repositories. A pattern-based implementation scheme is discussed, exploiting existing tools. The applicability of the approach is studied in the context of an industrial case study.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

General Terms:
Documentation

Keywords:
concern-based mining, heterogeneous software repositories, pattern-based search structures