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A reference architecture for the component factory

Editor: W. Adrion Authors:

Victor R. Basili,

Gianluigi Caldiera,

Giovanni CantoneAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 1, Issue 1

Pages 53 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/125489.122823

Published: 02 January 1992 Publication History

Abstract

Software reuse can be achieved through an organization that focuses on utilization of life cycle products from previous developments. The component factory is both an example of the more general concepts of experience and domain factory and an organizational unit worth being considered independently. The critical features of such an organization are flexibility and continuous improvement. In order to achieve these features we can represent the architecture of the factory at different levels of abstraction and define a reference architecture from which specific architectures can be derived by instantiation. A reference architecture is an implementation and organization independent representation of the component factory and its environment. The paper outlines this reference architecture, discusses the instantiation process, and presents some examples of specific architectures by comparing them in the framework of the reference model.

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Index Terms

A reference architecture for the component factory
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
    2. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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Reviews

Reviewer: James Edward Tomayko

This paper builds on previous work by the authors attempting to build a technical and managerial framework for large-scale software reuse. The strong points of the article include a fresh understanding of the true nature of reuse as actually the reuse of the total experience of making the software component, and a clear set of organizational guidelines for creating a component factory. The sole negative is that some concepts are presented as though the reader is familiar with the authors' other papers on this subject, which means they are sometimes difficult to understand. All in all, an interesting presentation of some much-needed ideas.

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cover image ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Volume 1, Issue 1

Jan. 1992

123 pages

ISSN:1049-331X

EISSN:1557-7392

DOI:10.1145/125489

Editor:
W. Adrion
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

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