Reuse research and development: is it on the right track?

Abstract

In today marketplace, the competitive software developing shop is the one that can reduce produce delivery time, increase diversity of the product enhance interoperability, and conform to standardization of components. In the past decade, software reuse gradually has started coming into the main stream of research and practice as a viable subfield of software engineering. Reuse practice has a great potential, more than many other on-going activities in software to improve software development process. However,there is not ss much progressas was expected. There have been many papers and articles in technical, professional, as well as trade publications dealing with the issues and prospects, the pros and cons, and the incentives and impediments of soflware reuse.