Development of a Supporting System for Reuse of Software Engineering Experience

Building up and reusing domain specific experience is an essential task in context of systematic quality improvement programs. As the task of building experience cannot be performed by the software projects, an independent organization unit has to do this, the so--called Experience Factory. To keep the Experience Factory effective, even if people are joining or leaving or the amount of experience grows, there is a demand, first to structure experience and second to provide assistance in handling the experience packages. In this research abstract I propose an approach that help to fulfill these demands. Main elements of this approach are formalization of experience packages to enable automatic support, assistance in generalization and aggregation to manage even large numbers of experience packages, and dynamic distance calculation to handle varying environments and to identify key factors for special kinds of experience. RESEARCH AREA Software plays an essential role in our live. It c..