Programmers who work with smart contract development often encounter challenges in reusing code from repositories. This is due to the presence of two unknowns that can lead non-functional and functional failures. These are implicit collaborations between functions subtle differences among similar functions. Current mining methods extract syntax semantic knowledge (known knowledge), but they can...

Although the idea of reusing code is very appealing, effective reuse has long been acknowledged as a problem. To help address the difficulties, many advocate strong management commitment to code reuse, leading to the treatment of code as an asset to be carefully managed in a well-organized repository. However, the advent of the Web may bring a change to this outlook, encouraging informal, loose...

Software reuse is an eeective way to gain productivity in constructing software systems. In order to continuously monitor the progress of reuse in the context of a project, we need an objective and repeatable way to measure the extent of reuse. This paper proposes a model and methodology to automatically compute a general objective reuse measure from the source code of applications and reusable...

Design patterns are typically defined informally, albeit in a standard format, and have to be programmed by the software designer into each new application. Thus although patterns support solution reuse, in practice this does not translate into code reuse. In this paper we argue that to achieve code reuse, patterns should be defined and used in the context of software component models. We show ...

Information leakage and memory disclosure are major threats to the security in modern computer systems. If an attacker is able to obtain the binary-code of an application, it is possible to reverseengineer the source-code, uncover vulnerabilities, craft exploits, and patch together code-segments to produce code-reuse attacks. These issues are particularly concerning when the application is an o...

Client-side applications often contain similar features and 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 and the main method of reuse is still copy-pasting code. Copy-paste reuse ca...

Applying reuse-supporting techniques has the potential for increasing software productivity, shortening development time and decreasing maintenance costs. However, at present, there is no methodology incorporating reuse as a standard development practice and the question of which factors affect reuse, their level of significance and assessment is still a controversial issue. Code reuse, on the ...

A goal of reusing source code is to lower development costs; however, reuse techniques usually require additional costs in creating generic source code and retrieving the appropriate source code from a code repository. In this paper, we present Domain Data Concept (DDC) Tracer, a novel traceability technique that facilitates reuse in layered applications in a costeffective way. While current tr...

This paper analyzes the reuse choices made by open source developers and relates them to cost efficiency. We make a distinction between the commonality among applications and the actual reuse of code. The former represents the similarity between the requirements of different applications and, consequently, the functionalities that they provide. The latter represents the actual reuse of code. No...