This updated edition of a classic book is an essential guide to successful systematic, life cycle-based reuse. It explains in depth the fundamentals, economics, and metrics of a systematic process of reuse and shows how it can succeed, even in rapidly changing technology environments. This book emphasizes software reuse as past of the full life cycle of the type of complex systems that may evolve into “systems of systems.”
Important material has been added on the changed state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice of software reuse, on product-line architectures, on reuse economics, and the maintenance of COTS-based systems.
