System and method for semantic software analysis

摘要

A computer system for implementing methods of semantically analysing and organising software based on its software source code, inline comments, and associated documentation is disclosed. The system automatically categorises and archives software to facilitate software reuse. Semantic analysis produces a profile of the software, these profiles can then be searched by software engineers to find existing code that performs a required operation. In other embodiments the semantic analysis can define a list of attributes of the software using a predefined taxonomy.