Development of a Software Repository for the Precise Search and Extract Retrieval of the Component

Abstract

The recent progress in the component based engineering has offered many facilities in the field of software reuse. However, this advancement has also brought the challenge such as designing repositories and developing efficient search of software components. But the problem that is generally encountered is the efficient search and the exact retrieval of the software components from the software repositories as they are not properly represented yet. There are many softwares and websites which provide for the retrieval of reusable components, but the search is not precise and the retrieval is not that exact. So, the system proposes to make the search as concise and precise as possible and also facilitate the users with various retrieval methods, out of which they can select the one they deem fit for their purpose. The user should be able to perform search based on certain fixed categories by using different retrieval techniques i.e. Keyword based retrieval, signature based retrieval and operational semantic based retrieval. The basic comparison between these techniques and the test cases are designed on the basis of precision and recall should be done for improving the effective search. Thus, this dissertation deals with the construction of the software repository, construction of the operational semantic keyword based retrieval technique for evaluating the best results and at the end comparison between the techniques for retrieval of the software components is made on the basis of precision and recall.