Conventional Program to Component-Based Software: A Critical Survey on Software Reuse

Abstract

Component-Based Software Engineering is an elite form of software engineering that offers the feature of reusability. Reuse of software artefacts and the process of reusability make CBSE a specialized paradigm of software development. CBSE stands on the philosophy of “the buy, don’t build". The basic idea of CBSE is to reuse pre-constructed and available software constructs rather than developing them from the beginning. In this work we have performed a deep literature survey and a comparative analysis on the basis of reusability techniques offered by eminent practitioners considering three categories of development paradigms; conventional, object-oriented and component-based software. Literature review is done on three basic criteria: measures and metrics used, key finding of every paper and factors affecting the property of reusability.