Software Reuse; Caught between Strategic Importance and Practical Feasibility

Worldwide the belief is shared that software reuse is needed to cope with the ever increasing amount of software. Software reuse is one part of addressing the amount of software, which is often overhyped and underestimated. Reuse of software is discussed via 8 statements, addressing: the need for reuse, the technical and organizational challenges, integration issues, evolution, reuse of know how, focus on the bussiness and customer and validation. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaudí documents are available at: http://www.extra.research.philips.com/natlab/sysarch/ version: 1.0 status: concept 1st April 2004