Exploring Reuse Spaces of Web Services and Contents

Development of commercial web systems is laborious, lengthy and costly. This is partly due to the fact that the methods of their development can hardly cope with the complexity of provided services. Such services may need to be distributed and collaborative, require sophisticated software architecture, be rich in form, content and interactivity, and have a wide range of potentially casual users. To improve this situation, the authors propose a reuse space analysis (RSA) approach to web development. Our approach focuses on capturing domain and development experience of all system stakeholders and subsequently using this experience in making informed design and reuse decisions across the development life cycle. As a result we managed to seamlessly integrate design and reuse processes, and reaching the balance between the development cost, system function and its quality.