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ICCBR 1999: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development pp 173–187Cite as

REMEX - A Case-Based Approach for Reusing Software Measurement Experienceware

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For the improvement of software quality and productivity, organizations need to systematically build up and reuse software engineering know-how, promoting organizational learning in software development. Therefore, an integrated support platform has to be developed for capturing, storing and retrieving software engineering knowledge. Technical support is complicated through specific characteristics of the software engineering domain, such as the lack of explicit domain models in practice and the diversity of environments. Applying Case-Based Reasoning, we propose an approach for the representation of relevant software engineering experiences, the goal-oriented and similarity-based retrieval tailorable to organization-specific characteristics and the continuous acquisition of new experiences. The approach is applied and validated in the context of the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) approach, an innovative technology for software measurement.

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  1. Production Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Christiane von GresseWangenheim

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, D 67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Ralph Bergmann

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3682, Laramie, WY, 82072, USA

    L.Karl Branting

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von GresseWangenheim, C. (1999). REMEX - A Case-Based Approach for Reusing Software Measurement Experienceware. In: Althoff, KD., Bergmann, R., Branting, L. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1650. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48508-2_13

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