Reusable Software Components

Paper Summary:

This paper reviews reusable software components. According to the paper, reusable software components provide methods and techniques for structuring applications which are similar parts that share a characteristic element that can be utilized in creating more than one program or system in building different software applications. In other words, reusable software components encapsulates functionality where multiple occurrences of the components are usable at the same time while modifying it to fit a present application.

Outline:
Taxonomy Component Composition
Characteristics of Reusable Software Components
Benefits of Reusable Software Components
Reusable Artifacts
Design for Reuse
Component Based Development

From the Paper:

"Components are software modules that facilitates binary reuse, and their primary characteristic is that they can be "plugged in" together to build applications, that is, without the need for recompilation (Frakes, 1995). Component based development uses a data exchange model, tools, structured storage, and an underlying object model to construct applications from pre-existing components.
Some of the reusable components are developed in-house, and others may belong to libraries or toolkit. For an instance, a reusable software components uses interchangeable parts from other industries for software construction like communicating objects is embedding a spreadsheet within a word processor document, and a chart program within the spreadsheet; a single button in a graphical user interface, a small interest calculator, an interface to a database manager."

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