Practical Software Reuse

1. Introducing Software Reuse.- 1.1 First of All.- 1.2 Definition and Basic Essentials.- 1.3 Some Further Introductory Essentials.- 1.4 Systematic Reuse — Crossing Frontiers.- 1.5 A Note on the Experience Base Used in This Book.- 2. Reusable Software Assets.- 2.1 What Is a Software Asset?.- 2.2 What Are the Characteristics of Reusable Assets?.- 2.3 Managing Software Assets.- 2.4 Assets vs Objects.- 3. Reuse Repository.- 3.1 Who Needs a Repository?.- 3.2 Requirements for a Reuse Repository.- 3.3 Repositories on the Internet.- 3.4 Tool Categories on the Market.- 3.5 Key Points in the Choice of an Asset Repository.- 4. Reuse Processes.- 4.1 What Processes Do We Need?.- 4.2 Starting a Corporate Reuse Programme: The Reuse Introduction Process.- 4.3 Practising Reuse: Asset Production and Application Production Processes.- 4.4 A Summarized Vision on Processes: How Does Reuse Affect Traditional Software Processes?.- 5. Managing Reuse.- 5.1 The Management Issues.- 5.2 To Reuse or Not To Reuse? ­ the Big Question.- 5.3 Reuse for All, and All for Reuse.- 5.4 Adapting the Work Structure.- 6. Reuse Metrics.- 6.1 General Aspects of a Metrics Programme.- 6.2 A Typical Reuse Metrics Programme.- 7. Reuse Techniques and Technologies.- 7.1 Rationale.- 7.2 Reuse-Enabling Architectures.- 7.3 Object-Oriented Techniques.- 7.4 Design Patterns.- 7.5 Object-Oriented Frameworks.- 7.6 Component-Based Development.- 7.7. Agent-Based Systems.- 7.8 Comparison of Techniques.- 8. Two Major Case Histories.- 9. Two Smaller Case Histories.- 10. Experience Review and Success Factors.- 10.1 The Experience Base.- 10.2 Analysis of Experience.- 10.3 A Reuse Introduction Decision Sequence.- 10.4 Conclusion.- Acronyms.- Selected Bibliography.- Index 219.