Software Reuse

Charles W. Krueger provides a survey in the ACM Computing Surveys 24(2):131-183, June 1992.

Software reuse is the process of creating software systems from existing software rather than building software systems from scratch.

He analyzes software reuse technologies according to four dimensions:

• Abstraction -- making a piece of softare reusable in a wider context
• Selection -- finding the required component
• ProgramSpecialization -- mechanisms for configuring assets to specific requirements
• Integration -- a framework is needed to ensure that components can talk to each other.

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See also I. Jacobson, M. Griss and P. Jonsson: Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success. Addison-Wesly, 1997. (481 pp.)

Emphasizes Application Family Engineering, which then provides the infrastructure for Application System Engineering -- building applications from reusable components.

The book does not yet mention SoftwareProductLines, but it does introduce all relevant concepts.

Does not explicitly cover the notion of DomainEngineering -- this is covered as just an aspect of application family engineering.

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CategorySoftwareEvolution | Contributions by ArieVanDeursen