Facilitating an automated approach to architecture-based software reuse

Over the past several years, a number of techniques have been developed to address various issues involving software reuse, such as component classification, retrieval, and integration. However, it is not adequate to only have reuse techniques that address reuse issues separately. Instead, a seamless integration of these reuse techniques is critical to achieve effective reuse. In this paper, we present an integrated approach to software reuse. Based on software architecting techniques and formal methods, this approach addresses various reuse issues in a systematic and (semi) automatic fashion. An architecture-based software reuse and integration environment that supports this approach is also described.