A Survey on Mechanisms of Reusable Code Component Retrieval from Component Repository

Modern software is more dominant of software components in the process of software development. Reuse is the primary benefit of a software component improving productivity and decreasing time, cost of implementation. The high demand of reusable software components leads to need of a mechanism to effectively store and retrieve components whenever similar functionality is required. Several researchers have proposed different mechanisms to build these storage spaces of components called as Repositories. This work intends to survey different effective retrieval methods and repositories built earlier. Also, this paper discusses various stochastic and statistical models for code reusability in software engineering. This survey will be a base to develop a user friendly and well-organized repository for retrieval of code components.