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International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

SEKE 1999: Learning Software Organizations pp 25–50Cite as

Systematic population, utilization, and maintenance of a repository for comprehensive reuse

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Today's software developments are faced with steadily increasing expectations: software has to be developed faster, better, and cheaper. At the same time, application complexity increases. Meeting these demands requires fast, continuous learning and the reuse of experience on the part of the project teams. Thus, learning and reuse should be supported by well-defined processes applicable to all kinds of experience which are stored in an organizational memory. In this paper, we introduce a tool architecture supporting continuous learning and reuse of all kinds of experience from the software engineering domain and present the underlying methodology.

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    Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Birk, Susanne Hartkopf, Wolfgang Müller, Markus Nick, Dagmar Surmann & Carsten Tautz

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Althoff, KD. et al. (2000). Systematic population, utilization, and maintenance of a repository for comprehensive reuse. In: Ruhe, G., Bomarius, F. (eds) Learning Software Organizations. SEKE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1756. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101412

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