A framework for enhancing the retrieval of UML diagrams

Abstract

Software design is one of the demanding task that requires a lot of experience, expertise, and knowledge in many different design alternatives. Experience software designer’s knowledge is considers as a vital asset to the software development company, especially in current competitive market environment. In order to benefit from the knowledge of experienced software designers, Software Company needs a tool to store these design knowledge for future use and retrieved those design from repository when needed, especially before developing a new system. This tool should complement the effort required to design a new system from scratch and be able to compare the requirement of a new project with the requirements of the old projects in the repository. This paper proposes a framework for reusing UML diagrams.