A reuse triplet for systematic software reuse

Abstract

We present the view that for systematic software reuse (SSR) to happen we need a reuse software architecture (RSA) as the invariant base and a collection of reuse software components (RSCs) as the pluggable variant part of a family of architecturally similar software systems. We shall identify a reuse situation with a RSA, RSCs and a plugging operator. SSR is then presented as a case of plugging a collection of RSCs into the appropriate RSA. We apply this view of reuse to a number of reuse cases and find evidence that for reuse to be successful we need simple, clear and easily pluggable RSAs and RSCs.

A Framework for Describing Software Architectures for Reuse

“…The relationship between the RSA, RSCs and the target systems determines whether we are emphasising the reuse of RSAs or RSCs. In (Mugisa, 1997) we apply this view of reuse to well-known examples of reuse.…”