Software reuse processes

Abstract

Fourteen U.S. aerospace companies have established the Software Productivity Consortium to increase the productivity of their software-related personnel and the suitability of the software systems they produce. The Consortium’s efforts are focused on making prototyping and reuse a routine part of the development and maintenance of complex, embedded software systems. The Consortium’s products include software engineering tools and library facilities supporting both prototyping and reuse, and tools supporting the configuration of integrated environments composed of tools and library facilities obtained from diverse sources. In developing these products the Consortium is pursuing the productivity-improvement benefits to be derived from automation, elimination, integration and reorganization of software process activities.