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Unit 6 Software Reuse

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Introduction

 Software is becoming very expensive:


 a possible way to reduce cost:
 reuse parts from previously made software.
 assemble software from off-the-shelf components.

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 Advantages of reuse also include:
 reduced number of defects:
 standard and well-tested components are reused.
 reduced development time:
 provide early market access for products.

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What can be reused?

 Specification

 Design

 Code

 Test cases

 At the most abstract level:

 knowledge

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Basic Issues in Software Reuse

 Component creation
 Component indexing
 Search
 Understanding
 Adaptation
 Repository maintenance

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 Component creation:
 Identify reusable components
 Component indexing:
 classification of reusable components
 so that they can be easily searched when we look
for a component to reuse.

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 Search:
 search for right components in a database of
components
 requires a proper method to describe components

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 Understanding:
 to decide whether we can use some component
 we need a precise and sufficiently complete
understanding of what the component does.

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 Adaptation:
 A selected component may not exactly fit the
problem at hand
 Tinkering with the code is not satisfactory:
 in any case justified only if thoroughly understood

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 Repository maintenance:
 component entering
 tracking faulty components
 new applications emerge
 older applications become obsolete
 components might need changes
 obsolete components might have to be removed

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Domain analysis

 Aim:
 identify reusable components for a problem domain.
 identification of right kind of reusable information is
a difficult problem.

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Domain analysis

 Analysis of an application domain:


 to identify the reusable components
 Actual construction of reusable components for a
domain
 is called domain engineering.

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