Editorial

Special Issue on Software and Systems Reuse in the Big Data Era

Introduction—background

Software reuse is an established key-solution for increasing software development productivity and decreasing the number of software defects. In light of the large data footprint that is produced along software development and evolution, in terms of both process (e.g., feature requests, issue tracking, emails, developers’ communication, etc.) and product data (e.g., commits, source code elements, design artifacts, quality metrics, etc.), we identify an opportunity to revisit or reintroduce

Paper collection—review process

We organized this SI following the 2019 International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2019), which was successfully held in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). The SI comprises of revised and extended best papers from ICSR 2019, but also from new ones (we opted for an open CfP). In particular, we have invited 9 best papers from ICSR 2019, and 4 were finally accepted. On top of that, we have received 8 new submissions, out of which 3 were accepted. All papers have been rigorously reviewed, by

What is next?

This SI has been organized into three topics: (a) Reuse, Metrics, and Software Quality (b) Identification of Reused Artifacts; and (c) Software Development based on Reuse. Next, we provide a glimpse on the papers per topic, by presenting their titles, authors, and a brief abstract.

Topic 1—Reuse, Metrics, and Software Quality: Under this topic we have grouped three papers that are related to software measurement and quality assessment; i.e., metrics for reuse (2 papers), or the effect of reuse