Concepts for Reuse in the Experience Factory and Their Implementation for CBR-System Development

. An Experience Factory is an infrastructure for organizational learning in software development that includes an Experience Base as an organizational memory. We introduce a system architecture how such an infrastructure can be technically supported based on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) technology. As a first instantiation of this architecture we present the CBR-PEB application, a publicly accessible WWW-based experience base for CBR-system development. Based on first experiments, some results about the evaluation of the success of this application are described. Keywords. Case-based reasoning, continuous learning from experience, experimental software engineering, experience factory, experience base, GQM-based measurement 1 Introduction In software development, reuse is regarded as a means to handle today's increasing quality, productivity, and time-to-market requirements [BCR94a, GFW94]. But reuse is not just a by-product of software development. To support reuse one has to establish..