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Towards Automatic Client-side Feature Reuse

Authors:

Josip Maras, Jan Carlson, Ivica Crnkovic

Research group:

Industrial Software Engineering

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

Web Informations System Engineering, WISE 2014

Abstract

A client-side application offers a number of features, and similar features are often used in a large number of web applications -- facilitating reuse could offer considerable benefits in terms of faster development. Unfortunately, due to the specifics of prevailing technologies, the techniques and tools used to support reuse are not as advanced as in other software engineering disciplines -- the main method of reuse is still copy-pasting code. Copy-paste reuse can introduce a number of different types of errors that are time-consuming to detect and fix. In this paper we present a method for performing feature reuse in client-side web applications. We identify problems that occur when introducing code from one application into another application, present a set of algorithms that detect and fix those problems and perform the actual code merging. We have evaluated the approach on a web application suite, and the evaluation has shown that the method is capable of performing feature reuse.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Maras3094,
author = {Josip Maras and Jan Carlson and Ivica Crnkovic},
title = {Towards Automatic Client-side Feature Reuse},
month = {October},
year = {2013},
booktitle = {Web Informations System Engineering, WISE 2014},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/3094-}
}