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The ECCO tool: extraction and composition for clone-and-own

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Stefan Fischer,

Lukas Linsbauer,

Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon,

Alexander EgyedAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

Pages 665 - 668

Published: 16 May 2015 Publication History

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Software reuse has become mandatory for companies to compete and a wide range of reuse techniques are available today. However, ad hoc practices such as copying existing systems and customizing them to meet customer-specific needs are still pervasive, and are generically called clone-and-own. We have developed a conceptual framework to support this practice named ECCO that stands for Extraction and Composition for Clone-and-Own. In this paper we present our Eclipse-based tool to support this approach. Our tool can automatically locate reusable parts from previously developed products and subsequently compose a new product from a selection of desired features. The tools demonstration video can be found here: http://youtu.be/N6gPekuxU6o

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ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

May 2015

1058 pages

General Chair:
Antonia Bertolino
ISTI-CNR, Italy
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Gerardo Canfora
University of Sannio, Italy
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Sebastian Elbaum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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May 16 - 24, 2015

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