Strategic Software Production with Domain-Oriented Reuse

Software reuse is one of the most common buzzwords in today software engineering. We know that through reuse we can achieve quality, productivity, reliability, flexibility, low costs and all the goodies that one could dream. Unfortunately, in most of the cases we do not know how to achieve reuse. The fact is that software reuse is a quite pervasive property of software systems. Trying to achieve reuse just by good will is quite like trying find the analytic solutions of a tenth order polynomial equation. It can be considered an act of good will. People have published tons of papers and obtained several academic degrees in this attempt. However, it is simply not possible by the very nature of the problem. This book proposes a Copernican Revolution in the way of perceiving software reuse. Rather that studying how to modify the software development process to add “reuserelated” activities, it discusses how software reuse can be instilled in the “usual” development process. Reuse is not any longer an abstract entity to reach. Reuse is the glasses that we use to view the problems to solve.