A Comparative Study and Reusability Metrics Calculation with Reliability Estimation Approach of a Source Code Navigation Tool

Annotations play an important role both in software development and software maintenance activities. The semantically rich annotations will be supporting the software developers to a very significant level. The current source code annotations which are provided by modern development environment such as Eclipse are having difficulty in managing the annotations. Thus, a novel approach is emerged to improve efficiency of development tools and to reduce development time and cost. The main objective of this paper is to provide insights in defining semantically rich annotations to source code using Tags for Software Engineering Activities (TagSEA) tool and to improve navigation and management of annotations while estimating the reliability of the tool. The comparison with existing annotation tool support is provided and also the tag reusability metrics is considered. But reliability is more focused and it is being one of the illusive targets to achieve in the software development for the successful software projects. It is one of the most important parameter or attribute of software to be achieved for the software quality. There are different techniques and models used for estimating the reliability of the software. We are using an architecture-based approach also for estimating the reliability.