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 multi-use assets like architectures, patterns, components, and frameworks.
The most common type of reuse is the reuse of software components, but other artifacts produced during the software development process can also be reused: system architectures, analysis models, design models, design patterns, database schemas, web services, etc. |
“To realize a return on the investments we make in developing the solutions, we must reuse them enough to more than recover the cost of their development, either directly through cost reductions, or indirectly, through time to market reductions and quality improvements.”
Jack Greenfield et al - “Software Factories” |
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