Software reuse is a good costefficient and timesaving development way. Qualitybased software reuse department of computer. An initial investment is required to start a software reuse process, but that investment pays for itself in a few reuses. Software reuse is a term used for developing the software by using the existing software components. Advices can be implemented through aspect orientation 3. Typically these include increases in productivity and quality but there are other, less. Reuse software engineering is based on guidelines and principles for reusing the existing software. Qualitybased software reuse julio cesar sampaio do prado leite1, yijun yu2, lin liu3, eric s. Apr 20, 2011 software engineering in the past was more focused on the original development and now it has recognized the importance of the software reuse method which is helpful in achieving better software, at low costs and more quickly. But in order to reuse code, that code needs to be high quality. Software reuse is the use of existing software or software knowledge to construct new software 118. Department of computer science university of toronto canada. Nonfunctional requirements and quality attributes 2.
The paper presents a failure modes model of parts based software reuse, and shows how this model can be used to evaluate and improve software reuse processes. Today in the smart iot era, it becomes a great challenge to meet the new requirements of emerging software systems and meanwhile enjoy the. Component reuse components of an application from subsystems to single objects. Software reuse software asset management solutions. The purpose of software reuse has evolved over the years to include improvements in productivity 120, reliability 121, quality 122 and cost efficiency 123. What are stages of reuse oriented software engineering. Taxonomy, definition, approaches, benefits, reusability levels. Anyone who has spent time building software in an organization will tell you that achieving software reuse is extremely challenging. Reliability and dependability of componentbased software. A good software reuse process facilitates the increase of productivity, quality, and reliability, performance and the decrease of costs, effort, risk and implementation time. Krueger 15 reuse is the process of creating software systems from existing software rather than building them from scratch. The reuse oriented model, also called reuse oriented development rod, is a method of software development in which a program is refined by producing a sequence of prototypes called models, each of which is automatically derived from the preceding one according to a sequence of defined. Our research thesis is that software development based upon a reuse based process model improves quality of products and. We argue that it is possible and necessary to also look at reuse from a nonfunctional quality perspective.
The quality movement that has had such a dramatic impact on all industrial sectors has finally reached the systems and software industry. Large scale software reuse, however, has remained elusive and few. The model and the technique are illustrated using survey data about software reuse gathered from 1 people from 29 organizations. What is reuseoriented model or reuseoriented development. Although some of the concepts of quality management originally developed for other products can be applied to software, as a product that is developed and not produced, it requires a special approach. Raghav rao suny buffalo, amherst, ny 14260, usa reusability is a general principle that is instrumental in avoiding duplication and capturing commonality in inherently similar tasks. Cbsd emphasizes the design and development of software systems using preexisting components. Reusable software became synonymous with the ada programming language in the 1980s though it was prophesied as a major strategy in 1968 and was a central management facet of japanese software factories in the 1970s 124. The systematic reuse of these components as building blocks to create new systems. Software metrics to estimate software quality using software. Enabling reusebased software development of largescale.
Software reuse was proposed as early as 1968 in order to help alleviate the software crisis characterized by an explosion in computers and software complexity through the production of massproduced software components 119. Component based software development cbsd endeavors to deliver costeffective and quality software systems through the selection and integration of commercially available software components. Software component reusability is an indispensable part of component based software development life cycle. Improve software quality by reusing knowledge and experience. Decision support systems 12 1994 5777 57 northholland software reuse. The impact of software reuse and incremental development on. Incremental development, software reuse, product families and component based development seem to be the potent technologies to achieve benefits in productivity, quality and maintainability, and to reduce the risks of changes. Jan 02, 2015 reuse based software engineering system reuse complete systems, which may include several application programs may be reused.
Repository based reuse is collected by investigating various journals, conference done when component repository is used and can be. Process improvements for software quality and reliability. Software reuse and software reuse oriented software. Reuse is already a common technique employed in other engineering disciplines. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. In this sense, the reuse of software requirements has received important attention because it provides a solid support to develop quality software through obtaining and reusing quality software. However, a number of specifics caused by software reuse such as the variable usage of components or genericity of artifacts must be faced during quality assurance.
However reusing an existing component without any change is a very difficult choice for the component users integrators. Jul 11, 2005 this software environment successfully follows principles of reuse based software development in order to achieve an average reuse of 32 percent per project, which is the average amount of software either reused or modified from previous systems. There are two types of software reuse,s one is opportunistic reuse and the other is planned reuse. For example, when a house is constructed, the trusses which support the roof are typically purchased preassembled. A software reuse approach and its effect on software quality, an. Select business solutions has been helping companies achieve software reuse through both technology and component based development cbd methodology for over 10 years. Qualitybased software reuse department of computer science. By reusing existing software, developers can create more complex software in a shorter amount of time. School of software tsinghua university beijing china. Produce better quality software and provide a powerful competitive advantage. Jul 07, 2017 code reuse is the practice of using existing code for a new function or software. Systematic software reuse is a promising means to reduce development cycle time and cost, improve software quality, and leverage existing effort by constructing and applying multiuse assets like architectures, patterns, components, and frameworks. We argue that it is possible and necessary to also look at reuse.
Q7, a language for the quality based aspect oriented. Software reuse seminar report and ppt for cse students. Pdf an empirical study of software reuse and quality in an. In this paper, the effects of reuse on software quality in an industrial setting are. Jun 18, 2009 vijay narayananoffers 10 practival tips on succeeding with systematic reuse of software components, based on his experience with multiple projects. This simple yet powerful vision was introduced in 1968. Software component selection based on quality criteria using. Why software reuse has failed and how to make it work for you. The software business the nature of software learning in the software discipline is evolutionary and experimental software is development design not production software technologies are human based there is a lack of models for reasoning about the process and product all software is not the same. The thesis reports a reallife study of the impact of reuse on quality, effort and related economic consequences of embedded software development based on firsthand objective data from 30.
These systems, such as smartpervasive systems, cloud services, microservicebased systems and big data applications, have imposed more rigorous quality requirements on software reuse technologies. In short, the development of a reuse process and repository produces a base of knowledge that improves the quality after each reuse cycle. In this context, finding a reusable artifact is driven by a desired functionality. Software reuse has, however, failed to become a standard software engineering practice. Software engineers and managers need to change their view of software reuse from that of simply accessing parts in a software library, to that of systematically developing and using welldesignedparts following a careful process within a reuse based software factory. Jun 29, 2011 one of the ways to promote the benefits of the reuse software within any organization is for such organization to attain the component based software development amin and oxley, 2011. Activity based management of componentbased software development, 1998. Software reuse is the process of using the existing software to create a new software system. Reuse of an existing software component is simply based on selecting suitable software component from a software component database and plugging it into new software application being developed. Application reuse an application may be reused either by incorporating it without change into other or by developing application families. Additionally, for componentbased software, size is not an available. Like many other promising techniques in the history of software, however, systematic reuse of. The main desire of the software industry is to develop software with high quality with an affordable cost within a reasonable time. Some of the components that can be reuse are as follows.
Developing a data mining method for exploring industrial data repositories based on experience from the quantitative studies. A new process model for reuse based software development approach. A definition of software reuse is the process of creating software systems from predefined software components. Componentbased software engineering cbse is a process that. Purpose of software reuse is to improve software quality and productivity. Work in software reuse focuses on reusing artifacts. Commercialofftheshelf software components are readymade components that can be reused for a new software. Quality improvement using a software reuse failure modes. Software reuse is the process of creating software systems from existing software rather than building software systems from scratch. And that means it should be safe, secure, and reliable. Our research thesis is that software development based upon a reuse based process model improves quality of products and productivity of processes. Thus, more than for traditional software development, quality assurance becomes a crucial part of every reuse based development effort.
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