Provenance-based reuse of software code

A computer program product, comprising a tangible machine-readable storage medium having encoded therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein the one or more software programs when executed by at least one processing device perform the following steps:

• extracting provenance data from source code in a source code corpus, wherein the source code comprises a plurality of source code fragments, and wherein the extracted provenance data indicates a control flow of the source code and a data flow of the source code;
• encapsulating two or more source code fragments from the source code that satisfy one or more similarity criteria as a reusable source code fragment;
• and
• providing a repository of a plurality of the encapsulated reusable source code fragments for reuse during a development of new software scripts, wherein the repository of encapsulated reusable source code fragments further comprises a searchable database comprising the extracted provenance data.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processing device, coupled to the memory, operative to implement the following steps:
• extracting provenance data from source code in a source code corpus, wherein the source code comprises a plurality of source code fragments, and wherein the extracted provenance data indicates a control flow of the source code and a data flow of the source code;
• encapsulating two or more source code fragments from the source code that satisfy one or more similarity criteria as a reusable source code fragment;
• and
• providing a repository of a plurality of the encapsulated reusable source code fragments for reuse during a development of new software scripts, wherein the repository of encapsulated reusable source code fragments further comprises a searchable database comprising the extracted provenance data.