Software developers often do not build software from scratch but reuse software libraries. In theory, the APIs of a library should be stable, but in practice they do change and th...
An important issue in a component-based software development process is the supply source of mature, reliable, adaptable, and maintainable components. We define as component minin...
Although software reuse can improve both the quality and productivity of software development, it will not do so until software developers stop believing that it is not worth thei...
Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...
Reuse has always been a major goal in software engineering, since it promises large gains in productivity, quality and time to market reduction. Practical experience has shown tha...