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Published in 1993. Software reuse has been shown to achieve improvements in productivity, quality and timeliness of software. The collection of papers in this book were given at a seminar organized by UNICOM and the British Computer Society Software Reuse Specialist Group. They address the reasons why software reuse can maximize an organization's return from past expenditure and ensure a good future expenditure. Increasing the automation of software development requires access to explicit knowledge about processes and products involved. The chapters examine the relationship between reuse and other aspects of software engineering, including management techniques and structures, CASE, methodologies and object orientation. In addition, the papers aim to provide a structures insight into new techniques which will become available through the 1990s. This text is suitable for software managers and directors, software engineers, software professionals, academics, and other involved in software engineering research.

Introducing the reuse-driven software engineering business; Architectural style; Processes; Organizing a reuse business.

McClure takes software reuse beyond "good intentions", by presenting specific reuse techniques that have repeatedly helped companies lower costs and improve quality.

The book provides a clear understanding of what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, the activities, and its different forms. The reader is also given an overview of what sofware components are, different kinds of components and compositions, a taxonomy thereof, and examples of successful component reuse. An introduction to software engineering and software process models is also provided.

Software reuse promises high value to businesses that develop software, opening the door to radical improvements in productivity, cost, and time to market. This book is for those who are wondering whether they should adopt reuse and how, and also for those who have already started to adopt it but are wondering where they may be going wrong and how they could do better. It emphasizes the practical issues that influence success or failure in reuse; and offers a concise and balanced coverage of the essentials.

This book documents methods for quantifying the benefits of software reuse so that developers can accurately judge whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. It explains how to apply reuse metrics, reuse economic models, and reuse Return-On-Investment (ROI) models in diverse organizations and many different programming languages.