A Brief Review of an Experience Reuses Approach

Today, no corporate can do business without software. So, the demand for new software applications at low cost within short time period is currently increasing at an exponential rate which requires a substantial change to software industries. However, conventional methodologies have not achieved such drastic gain of the productivity and quality yet. Reuse of products, processes and experience originating from the system life cycle is seen today as a feasible solution to the problem of developing higher quality systems at a lower cost and in shorten time. This review paper highlights such a technical and social experience management infrastructure, called the experience factory, aimed at reuse of software development life cycle experiences, processes and products. Keywords— experience management, experience factory, methodologies, products, process, system life cycle.