Source Program Archives Site: A step toward cooperation of open-source movement and software engineering

Open-source movement plays an important roll in Especially middle and lower phases of software development and it brings software engineering a new research style. Researchers came to be able to access large quantities of large-scale and commercial-quality software in free without NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) by its favor. In this paper, we report the project named Sappy in order to establish the communication field and knowledge (idioms, sample program segments, programming know-how, bug reports and its solutions, to-do lists, and so on) sharing space for open-source software developers. We build the Source Program Archive Site which collect and store large quantities of excellent open-source software's source program. The site analyzed the source programs in order to generated mark-uped source programs in HTML by the tool called SPIE which we develop for this project. The site provide the tagged source programs through the Internet. Thus software developers can browse and retrieve portions of software with popular internet-browsers like Netscape Communicator and Microsoft IE.