Object technology is believed to be crucial in achieving the long sought-after goal of widespread reuse. This goal is the most frequently stated reason for adopting OT. Unfortunately, many people naively equate reuse with objects, expecting it to “automatically” ensure reuse, but often do not get much reuse. Based on my experience with reuse at HP, Objectory and Rational, and with many customer...

This research investigates the premise that the likelihood of success of software reuse efforts may vary with the reuse strategy employed and, hence, potential reuse adopters must be able to understand reuse strategy alternatives and their implications. We use survey data collected from 71 software development groups to empirically develop a set of six dimensions that describe the practices emp...

Over the past several years, a number of techniques have been developed to address various issues involving software reuse, such as component classification, retrieval, and integration. However, it is not adequate to only have reuse techniques that address reuse issues separately. Instead, a seamless integration of these reuse techniques is critical to achieve effective reuse. In this paper, we...

Software reuse has been pointed as one of the most promising technique to deal with quality and productivity problems. To support reuse, software processes have to consider two facets: developing for reuse and developing with reuse. In this paper we present an ontology-based approach for software reuse and discuss how ontologies can support several tasks of a reuse-based software process.

Software reuse enables the development of software that is of better quality and at lower cost. Software reuse environments are sought to enhance the reuse of software artifacts especially when done at earlystage of the software life cycle. A number of software reuse environments have been proposed, however, there is no framework that helps in analyzing and evaluating such environments. In this...

When talking about software reuse, a problem that very quickly becomes apparent is “what is being used?”. In this paper, we introduce the concept of assembly, a unit of reusable software. This allows us to more sensibly compare different strategies for software reuse. We believe this concept is scalable to all levels, from intra-program reuse to inter-program reuse. In particular, it allows us ...