Software Engineering with Reusable Components - Hardcover

Sametinger, Johannes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540626956 ISBN 13: 9783540626954

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

Software is rarely built completely from scratch. To a great extent, existing software documents (source code, design documents, etc.) are copied and adapted to fit new requirements. Yet we are far from the goal of making reuse the standard approach to software development. Software reuse is the process of creating software systems from existing software rather than building them from scratch. Software reuse is still an emerging discipline. It appears in many different forms from ad-hoc reuse to systematic reuse, and from white-box reuse to black-box reuse. Many different products for reuse range from ideas and algorithms to any documents that are created during the software life cycle. Source code is most commonly reused; thus many people misconceive software reuse as the reuse of source code alone. Recently source code and design reuse have become popular with (object-oriented) class libraries, application frameworks, and design patterns. Software components provide a vehicle for planned and systematic reuse. The software community does not yet agree on what a software component is exactly. Nowadays, the term component is used as a synonym for object most of the time, but it also stands for module or function. Recently the term component-based or component-oriented software development has be­ come popular. In this context components are defined as objects plus some­ thing. What something is exactly, or has to be for effective software develop­ ment, remains yet to be seen. However, systems and models are emerging to support that notion.

About this title

Synopsis

This book provides the reader with a clear understanding of what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, the activities, and different forms of software reuse. The reader is also given an overview of what software 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. Consequences and influences of systematic reuse of software components are depicted, and activities like domain engineering, component engineering and application engineering are described. The importance of documentation is taken into consideration as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540626956
• ISBN 13: 9783540626954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288