Software Re-use, Utrecht 1989: Proceedings of the Software Re-use Workshop, 23–24 November 1989, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Workshops in Computing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540196528 ISBN 13: 9783540196525

Publisher: Springer, 1991

Synopsis

In November 1989 we organised a workshop on software re-use, inviting members of the leading research teams across Europe. In retrospect, we realise that we missed a few research teams out, but nevertheless we did have a very fruitful workshop. This book is the outcome of that meeting. Prior to the workshop, teams submitted short position papers, and at the workshop made very short presentations of these. Most of the time was spent in four parallel sessions, and the reports of these sessions are given in Chapter 2. After the workshop we invited the attendees to revise and resubmit their papers in the light of the workshop, and it is these updated papers that appear in Chapter 4 onwards. The papers are in alphabetical order of first author. To complete this text we have added an introduction to software re-use as a first chapter-this was prepared by Liesbeth Dusink. We have added a comprehensive bibliography as Chapter 3, merging the bibliographies accumulated at Delft and at Brunei. To be able to organise the workshop we were sponsored by SERC, the Software Engineering Research Centre in Utrecht, Netherlands. November 1990 Liesbeth Dusink Pat Hall Contents Ust of Contributors . . . .. . .. . .. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . .. .. .. . . .. .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi . . . .

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This volume contains the papers (revised after the workshop had taken place), together with the reports of the parallel sessions, from the Software Re-use Workshop, held in Utrecht from 23-24 November 1989. Members of the leading research teams from Europe were invited to the workshop to present short papers. The various researchers' approaches were debated in the parallel sessions: on domain analysis, on component engineering (including reverse engineering), and on the development of software from re-usable components. Re-use of software may be defined as a means to support the construction of new programs using, in a systematic way, existing designs, design fragments, program texts, documentation, or other forms of program representation. This excludes porting and maintenance because these activities are based on keeping the same software in a changing (hardware or software) environment. Software re-use is sometimes regarded as a solution to the "software crisis", by both improving software quality and reducing costs and timescales.

However, although the idea is simple, there are technical problems to be overcome, including: standard description of components, methods for generic components, use for reverse engineering, library organization for easy retrieval, methods for design using components and how to use knowledge of the underlying domains. The book starts with an introduction to software re-use, and has a comprehensive bibliography merged from those accumulated at Delft and Brunel. The book provides a summary of software re-use, which should be of interest to software engineers and postgraduate students who need a rapid introduction to software re-use and its main research issues, together with the results of current research from teams across Europe. This book of proceedings on computer science, software engineering and information systems is intended for researchers in industry and academia, software developers in industry and postgraduate students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540196528
• ISBN 13: 9783540196525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Dusink Liesbeth M., Hall Patrick A.V.