Software Reuse

✍ Scribed by Bernard Coulange (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software Reuse is a state of the art book concerning all aspects of software reuse. It does away with the hype and shows the reality. Different techniques are presented which enable software reuse and the author demonstrates why object-oriented methods are better for reuse than other approaches. The book details the different factors to take into account when managing reusable components: characterisation, identification, building, verification, storage, search, adaptation, maintenance and evolution. Comparisons and description of various types of companies that could benefit from applying reuse techniques are included outlining, amongst other things, increased profitability and likely problems that might arise from the purchase and selling of reuse tools and components. Based on a real experience of software reuse in a company with a bibliography of more than 200 references provided, this book is a 'must have' for all those working in the software reuse field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Hopes and Myths....Pages 1-5
Techniques for Reuse....Pages 7-34
Development Cycles....Pages 35-50
Characterising Reusable Components....Pages 51-77
How to Identify Reusable Components....Pages 79-95
Building Reusable Components....Pages 97-112
Component Certification....Pages 113-126
Component Storage....Pages 127-141
Finding Components....Pages 143-162
Adapting Components....Pages 163-191
Maintenance and Evolution of Components....Pages 193-211
Organisation for Reuse....Pages 213-227
Possible Profit....Pages 229-241
Buying and Selling Components....Pages 243-248
Experience with Reuse....Pages 249-271
Conclusions....Pages 273-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-293

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering