This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document discusses component-based software engineering (CBSE). It covers topics like components and component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. The key points are:
- CBSE relies on reusable software components with well-defined interfaces to improve reuse. Components are more abstract than classes.
- Essentials of CBSE include independent, interface-specified components; standards for integration; and middleware for interoperability.
- CBSE is based on principles like independence, hidden implementations, and replaceability through maintained interfaces.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
The chapter discusses software evolution, including that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, and errors. It describes how organizations must manage change to existing software systems, which represent huge investments. The majority of large software budgets are spent evolving, rather than developing new, systems. The chapter outlines the software evolution process and different approaches to evolving systems, including addressing urgent changes. It also discusses challenges with legacy systems and their management.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document discusses service-oriented software engineering and RESTful web services. It covers topics like service-oriented architectures, RESTful services, service engineering, and service composition. Key points include that services are reusable components that are loosely coupled and platform independent. Service-oriented approaches allow for opportunistic construction of new services and pay-per-use models. Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL are also discussed. The document provides an example of a service-oriented in-car information system.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document discusses component-based software engineering (CBSE). It covers topics like components and component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. The key points are:
- CBSE relies on reusable software components with well-defined interfaces to improve reuse. Components are more abstract than classes.
- Essentials of CBSE include independent, interface-specified components; standards for integration; and middleware for interoperability.
- CBSE is based on principles like independence, hidden implementations, and replaceability through maintained interfaces.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
The chapter discusses software evolution, including that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, and errors. It describes how organizations must manage change to existing software systems, which represent huge investments. The majority of large software budgets are spent evolving, rather than developing new, systems. The chapter outlines the software evolution process and different approaches to evolving systems, including addressing urgent changes. It also discusses challenges with legacy systems and their management.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document discusses service-oriented software engineering and RESTful web services. It covers topics like service-oriented architectures, RESTful services, service engineering, and service composition. Key points include that services are reusable components that are loosely coupled and platform independent. Service-oriented approaches allow for opportunistic construction of new services and pay-per-use models. Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL are also discussed. The document provides an example of a service-oriented in-car information system.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document discusses architectural design and various architectural concepts. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, architectural views using different models, common architectural patterns like MVC and layered architectures, application architectures, and how architectural design is concerned with organizing a software system and identifying its main structural components and relationships.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
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The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
This document discusses quality management in software development. It covers topics like software quality, standards, reviews/inspections, quality management in agile development, and software measurement. Regarding quality management, the key points are that it provides an independent check on the development process, ensures deliverables meet goals/standards, and the quality team should be independent from developers. Quality plans set quality goals and define assessment processes and standards to apply. Quality management is important for large, complex systems and focuses on establishing a quality culture for smaller systems.
This document provides an overview of topics in chapter 13 on security engineering. It discusses security and dependability, security dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability. It also outlines different security levels including infrastructure, application and operational security. Key aspects of security engineering are discussed such as secure system design, security testing and assurance. Security terminology and examples are provided. The relationship between security and dependability factors like reliability, availability, safety and resilience is examined. The document also covers security in organizations and the role of security policies.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
This chapter discusses system modeling and different types of models used, including:
- Context models which illustrate the operational context of a system.
- Interaction models which model interactions between a system and its environment.
- Structural models which display the organization of a system's components.
- Behavioral models which model a system's dynamic behavior in response to events or data.
- Model-driven engineering is discussed as an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 15 on resilience engineering. It discusses resilience as the ability of systems to maintain critical services during disruptions like failures or cyberattacks. Resilience involves recognizing issues, resisting failures when possible, and recovering quickly through activities like redundancy. The document also covers sociotechnical resilience, where human and organizational factors are considered, and characteristics of resilient organizations like responsiveness, monitoring, anticipation, and learning.
The document discusses dependability in systems. It covers topics like dependability properties, sociotechnical systems, redundancy and diversity, and dependable processes. Dependability reflects how trustworthy a system is and includes attributes like reliability, availability, and security. Dependability is important because system failures can have widespread impacts. Both hardware and software failures and human errors can cause systems to fail. Techniques like redundancy, diversity, and formal methods can help improve dependability. Regulation is also discussed as many critical systems require approval from regulators.
The document discusses project planning, including topics like software pricing, plan-driven development, project scheduling, and agile planning. It covers the different stages of planning, from initial proposals to ongoing development. Project planning involves breaking work into parts, anticipating problems, and communicating the plan. Regular updates allow the plan to reflect new information and changes throughout the project.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the requirements engineering process, elicitation, specification, validation, and change. It defines what requirements are, their different types and levels of abstraction. It also discusses stakeholders, and provides examples of functional and non-functional requirements for a healthcare management system called Mentcare.
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
The document discusses various topics related to software reuse, including application frameworks, software product lines, and application system reuse. It describes application frameworks as reusable architectures made up of abstract and concrete classes that are extended to create applications. Software product lines are families of applications with a common architecture that can be configured for different contexts. Application system reuse involves adapting generic application systems through configuration for specific customers. The document outlines several benefits and challenges to software reuse approaches.
The document discusses software reuse and chapter 16 of an unknown textbook. It covers several topics related to software reuse including application frameworks, software product lines, and COTS product reuse. Application frameworks provide a collection of abstract and concrete classes that can be extended and customized to create specific applications. Frameworks aim to increase reuse by providing a standardized architecture and interfaces that applications can build upon rather than developing everything from scratch. They must be extended by adding new classes and methods to create a complete application or subsystem.
The document discusses architectural design and various architectural concepts. It covers topics like architectural design decisions, architectural views using different models, common architectural patterns like MVC and layered architectures, application architectures, and how architectural design is concerned with organizing a software system and identifying its main structural components and relationships.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
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The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
This document discusses quality management in software development. It covers topics like software quality, standards, reviews/inspections, quality management in agile development, and software measurement. Regarding quality management, the key points are that it provides an independent check on the development process, ensures deliverables meet goals/standards, and the quality team should be independent from developers. Quality plans set quality goals and define assessment processes and standards to apply. Quality management is important for large, complex systems and focuses on establishing a quality culture for smaller systems.
This document provides an overview of topics in chapter 13 on security engineering. It discusses security and dependability, security dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability. It also outlines different security levels including infrastructure, application and operational security. Key aspects of security engineering are discussed such as secure system design, security testing and assurance. Security terminology and examples are provided. The relationship between security and dependability factors like reliability, availability, safety and resilience is examined. The document also covers security in organizations and the role of security policies.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
This chapter discusses system modeling and different types of models used, including:
- Context models which illustrate the operational context of a system.
- Interaction models which model interactions between a system and its environment.
- Structural models which display the organization of a system's components.
- Behavioral models which model a system's dynamic behavior in response to events or data.
- Model-driven engineering is discussed as an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 15 on resilience engineering. It discusses resilience as the ability of systems to maintain critical services during disruptions like failures or cyberattacks. Resilience involves recognizing issues, resisting failures when possible, and recovering quickly through activities like redundancy. The document also covers sociotechnical resilience, where human and organizational factors are considered, and characteristics of resilient organizations like responsiveness, monitoring, anticipation, and learning.
The document discusses dependability in systems. It covers topics like dependability properties, sociotechnical systems, redundancy and diversity, and dependable processes. Dependability reflects how trustworthy a system is and includes attributes like reliability, availability, and security. Dependability is important because system failures can have widespread impacts. Both hardware and software failures and human errors can cause systems to fail. Techniques like redundancy, diversity, and formal methods can help improve dependability. Regulation is also discussed as many critical systems require approval from regulators.
The document discusses project planning, including topics like software pricing, plan-driven development, project scheduling, and agile planning. It covers the different stages of planning, from initial proposals to ongoing development. Project planning involves breaking work into parts, anticipating problems, and communicating the plan. Regular updates allow the plan to reflect new information and changes throughout the project.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the requirements engineering process, elicitation, specification, validation, and change. It defines what requirements are, their different types and levels of abstraction. It also discusses stakeholders, and provides examples of functional and non-functional requirements for a healthcare management system called Mentcare.
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
The document discusses various topics related to software reuse, including application frameworks, software product lines, and application system reuse. It describes application frameworks as reusable architectures made up of abstract and concrete classes that are extended to create applications. Software product lines are families of applications with a common architecture that can be configured for different contexts. Application system reuse involves adapting generic application systems through configuration for specific customers. The document outlines several benefits and challenges to software reuse approaches.
The document discusses software reuse and chapter 16 of an unknown textbook. It covers several topics related to software reuse including application frameworks, software product lines, and COTS product reuse. Application frameworks provide a collection of abstract and concrete classes that can be extended and customized to create specific applications. Frameworks aim to increase reuse by providing a standardized architecture and interfaces that applications can build upon rather than developing everything from scratch. They must be extended by adding new classes and methods to create a complete application or subsystem.
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This document discusses software reuse, including approaches like application frameworks, software product lines, and COTS product reuse. It describes benefits of reuse like increased dependability and accelerated development, as well as challenges like increased maintenance costs and difficulty finding reusable components. Software product lines are defined as applications with generic functionality that can be configured for specific contexts, while COTS products are reusable commercial software systems adapted through configuration.
This document discusses various approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, application frameworks, component-based development, and generative programming. Design patterns describe abstract solutions to common problems in a reusable form. Application frameworks provide reusable abstract and concrete classes that can be adapted and extended to create application systems. Conceptual reuse through design patterns and generative programming allows reuse of ideas rather than just code.
Software reuse can take many forms from simple code reuse to complete application reuse. There are various levels of reuse including components, frameworks, libraries, services, patterns and full applications. The optimal approach depends on the available software, skills, and needs of the organization, with factors like schedule, lifetime, team, criticality and domain determining the best fit. Software reuse provides a cost-effective way to develop software.
This document discusses software reuse and the benefits and challenges of different approaches. It begins by defining software reuse and explaining its benefits like increased dependability and accelerated development. It describes different levels of reuse from whole applications to objects and functions. Challenges are also outlined such as increased maintenance costs. Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product reuse is specifically examined, noting how products can be configured but also issues in requirements adaptation and vendor control.
This document provides an overview of software reuse techniques discussed in Chapter 16, including:
1) Application frameworks which provide reusable skeleton designs through abstract and concrete classes;
2) Software product lines which allow generic applications to be adapted through configuration, component selection, and specialization for different requirements;
3) COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product reuse where pre-existing software systems can be customized through deployment configuration without changing source code.
The document discusses various approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, program generators, application frameworks, and application system reuse through component-based development, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, and software product lines. Design patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems, while program generators embed reusable concepts. Application frameworks provide reusable sub-system designs. COTS integration and software product lines allow entire applications to be reused through configuration or customization. The benefits of reuse include increased dependability, reduced costs and time, while challenges include maintenance overhead and cultural resistance.
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The document discusses various techniques for software reuse, including component-based development, application families, and design patterns. It describes the benefits of reuse such as increased reliability and reduced costs. Different types of reusable components are explained, from whole application systems to individual functions. Requirements for effective reuse include components being reliable, documented, and easily found and adapted.
This document discusses different approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, application frameworks, component reuse, and generator-based reuse. It covers the benefits of reuse, such as increased dependability and accelerated development, as well as potential problems like increased maintenance costs and the "not invented here" syndrome. Design patterns and generator-based reuse are highlighted as approaches that allow for concept reuse through reusable abstractions rather than just code or component reuse. The Observer design pattern is presented as a specific example.
This document discusses software reuse and its benefits and challenges. It describes different levels of reuse from whole application systems and components to objects and functions. Reusing software can increase dependability, reduce costs and risks, allow specialists to develop reusable assets, and accelerate development. However, reuse also poses challenges such as increased maintenance costs, lack of tool support, and difficulties finding, understanding and adapting reusable components.
A good process of software reuse leads to improved reliability, productivity, quality, and reductions in time and cost. Software can be reused at different scales, from complete systems to individual objects and functions. The benefits of reuse include accelerated development, effective use of specialists, increased dependability, lower development costs, reduced project risk, and standards compliance. However, problems with reuse include the costs of creating and maintaining component libraries, difficulties finding and adapting components, potential increased maintenance costs, lack of tool support, and reluctance to reuse outside components. Successful reuse depends on factors like development schedules, software lifetimes, team skills, requirements, application domains, and execution platforms.
This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses CBSE processes, component models, composition, and issues related to developing and reusing components. Specifically, it covers CBSE for reuse, which focuses on developing reusable components, and CBSE with reuse, which is the process of developing new applications using existing components. Component identification, validation, and resolving interface incompatibilities during composition are also addressed.
This chapter discusses approaches for designing software systems with reuse. It covers component-based development, where software is built from reusable components. Application families are introduced as a way to achieve reuse by developing a common core that is customized for different applications. Design patterns are discussed as reusable abstractions that promote reuse through solutions to common design problems. The chapter also addresses the benefits of reuse, different types of reusable artifacts, processes for component and framework reuse, and challenges involved in software reuse.
This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses key CBSE concepts like components, component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. Components are independent, reusable software entities with well-defined interfaces. A component model defines standards for component implementation and interoperability. CBSE processes include developing components for reuse, and developing software using existing reusable components. Middleware provides platform services to allow component communication.
The document discusses software reuse and component-based software engineering. It describes how reuse can happen at different levels from full application systems down to individual functions. Reusing code, specifications, and designs can improve reliability, reduce risks and costs, and speed up development time. However, reuse requires an organized component library, confidence in component quality, and documentation to support adaptation. The document also outlines processes for incorporating reuse into development and enhancing the reusability of components.
This presentation discusses software reuse, which is the process of implementing or updating software systems using existing software components. It provides an overview of software reuse, including its benefits of increasing productivity and quality while decreasing costs and time. The presentation covers types of reuse like opportunistic and planned reuse. It also discusses layers of reuse, types of software reuse like application and component reuse, advantages like increased reliability, and barriers to software reuse like maintenance costs. The conclusion is that systematic software reuse through good design can achieve better software more quickly and at lower cost.
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object-oriented Frameworks are compared to Component-Based Frameworks and their relationship are
discussed. Different software reuse methods impacts on architectural patterns and support for
application extensions and versioning. It is concluded that many of the mechanisms provided by
Component-Based Framework can be enabled by software elements at the lower level. The main
contribution of Component-Based Framework is the focus on Component development. All of them can be
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This document discusses software reusability and proposes a technique to evaluate it using software metrics and fuzzy logic. It begins by introducing component-based software engineering and noting the benefits of reusability. It then discusses software metrics that can measure characteristics of reusable components. Specifically, it distinguishes the aspects of reusability as usability and usefulness. Usability refers to the ease of using a component, while usefulness depends on its functionality and quality. The objectives of the proposed technique are to minimize repetition through software reuse and to develop metrics to accurately quantify reusability using fuzzy logic.
- Traditionally, separate teams handled software development, release, and support, which caused delays. The DevOps approach combines these roles into a single multi-skilled team.
- Three factors drove DevOps adoption: Agile reduced development time but introduced bottlenecks; Amazon improved reliability with single teams; software could be released as a service.
- DevOps benefits include faster deployment, reduced risk, and faster repair through collaboration between development and operations teams.
Covers security and privacy issues for software product developers including attacks and defenses, encryption, authentication, authorisation and data protection
Discusses the microservices architectural style for cloud-based systems. Explains what is meant by microservices and architectural choices for microservices
Introduces some fundamentals of cloud based software and discusses architectural issues for product developers. Covers containers, databases and cloud architecture choices
The document discusses software products and product engineering. It defines software products as generic systems that provide functionality to a range of customers, from business systems to personal apps. Product engineering methods have evolved from custom software engineering techniques. The key aspects of product development are that there is no external customer generating requirements, and rapid delivery is important to capture the market. Product managers are responsible for planning, development, and marketing software products throughout their lifecycle.
The document summarizes topics related to real-time software engineering including embedded system design, architectural patterns for real-time software, timing analysis, and real-time operating systems. It discusses key characteristics of embedded systems like responsiveness, the need to respond to stimuli within specified time constraints, and how real-time systems are often modeled as cooperating processes controlled by a real-time executive. The document also outlines common architectural patterns for real-time systems including observe and react, environmental control, and process pipeline.
This document discusses systems of systems and complexity. It begins by defining systems of systems and providing examples. Key characteristics of systems of systems include operational and managerial independence of elements, and evolutionary development. The document then covers sources of complexity, including technical, managerial and governance complexity. It discusses how reductionism has traditionally been used to manage complexity in engineering but has limitations for large systems of systems.
This chapter discusses distributed software engineering and distributed systems. It covers topics like distributed system characteristics including resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Some key issues with distributed systems are their complexity, lack of single control, and independence of parts. The chapter addresses design issues for distributed systems such as transparency, openness, scalability, security, quality of service, and failure management. It also covers models of interaction, middleware, and client-server computing.
This document discusses safety engineering for systems that contain software. It covers topics like safety-critical systems, safety requirements, and safety engineering processes. Safety is defined as a system's ability to operate normally and abnormally without harm. For safety-critical systems like aircraft or medical devices, software is often used for control and monitoring, so software safety is important. Hazard identification, risk assessment, and specifying safety requirements to mitigate risks are key parts of the safety engineering process. The goal is to design systems where failures cannot cause injury, death or environmental damage.
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Enterprise Knowledge’s Joe Hilger, COO, and Sara Nash, Principal Consultant, presented “Building a Semantic Layer of your Data Platform” at Data Summit Workshop on May 7th, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
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This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
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In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
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Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
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QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
3. Software reuse
In most engineering disciplines, systems are designed
by composing existing components that have been used
in other systems.
Software engineering has been more focused on original
development but it is now recognised that to achieve
better software, more quickly and at lower cost, we need
a design process that is based on systematic software
reuse.
There has been a major switch to reuse-based
development over the past 10 years.
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4. Reuse-based software engineering
System reuse
Complete systems, which may include several application
programs may be reused.
Application reuse
An application may be reused either by incorporating it without
change into other or by developing application families.
Component reuse
Components of an application from sub-systems to single objects
may be reused.
Object and function reuse
Small-scale software components that implement a single well-
defined object or function may be reused.
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5. Benefits of software reuse
Benefit Explanation
Accelerated development Bringing a system to market as early as possible is
often more important than overall development costs.
Reusing software can speed up system production
because both development and validation time may be
reduced.
Effective use of specialists Instead of doing the same work over and over again,
application specialists can develop reusable software
that encapsulates their knowledge.
Increased dependability Reused software, which has been tried and tested in
working systems, should be more dependable than
new software. Its design and implementation faults
should have been found and fixed.
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6. Benefits of software reuse
Benefit Explanation
Lower development costs Development costs are proportional to the size of the
software being developed. Reusing software means that
fewer lines of code have to be written.
Reduced process risk The cost of existing software is already known, whereas
the costs of development are always a matter of
judgment. This is an important factor for project
management because it reduces the margin of error in
project cost estimation. This is particularly true when
relatively large software components such as
subsystems are reused.
Standards compliance Some standards, such as user interface standards, can
be implemented as a set of reusable components. For
example, if menus in a user interface are implemented
using reusable components, all applications present the
same menu formats to users. The use of standard user
interfaces improves dependability because users make
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7. Problems with reuse
Problem Explanation
Creating, maintaining,
and using a component
library
Populating a reusable component library and ensuring the
software developers can use this library can be expensive.
Development processes have to be adapted to ensure that
the library is used.
Finding, understanding,
and adapting reusable
components
Software components have to be discovered in a library,
understood and, sometimes, adapted to work in a new
environment. Engineers must be reasonably confident of
finding a component in the library before they include a
component search as part of their normal development
process.
Increased maintenance
costs
If the source code of a reused software system or
component is not available then maintenance costs may be
higher because the reused elements of the system may
become increasingly incompatible with system changes.
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8. Problems with reuse
Problem Explanation
Lack of tool support Some software tools do not support development with
reuse. It may be difficult or impossible to integrate these
tools with a component library system. The software
process assumed by these tools may not take reuse into
account. This is particularly true for tools that support
embedded systems engineering, less so for object-
oriented development tools.
Not-invented-here
syndrome
Some software engineers prefer to rewrite components
because they believe they can improve on them. This is
partly to do with trust and partly to do with the fact that
writing original software is seen as more challenging than
reusing other people’s software.
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10. The reuse landscape
Although reuse is often simply thought of as the reuse of
system components, there are many different
approaches to reuse that may be used.
Reuse is possible at a range of levels from simple
functions to complete application systems.
The reuse landscape covers the range of possible reuse
techniques.
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12. Approaches that support software reuse
Approach Description
Application frameworks Collections of abstract and concrete classes are adapted and
extended to create application systems.
Application system
integration
Two or more application systems are integrated to provide
extended functionality
Architectural patterns Standard software architectures that support common types
of application system are used as the basis of applications.
Described in Chapters 6, 11 and 17.
Aspect-oriented software
development
Shared components are woven into an application at different
places when the program is compiled. Described in web
chapter 31.
Component-based
software engineering
Systems are developed by integrating components
(collections of objects) that conform to component-model
standards. Described in Chapter 16.
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13. Approaches that support software reuse
Approach Description
Configurable application
systems
Domain-specific systems are designed so that they can be
configured to the needs of specific system customers.
Design patterns Generic abstractions that occur across applications are
represented as design patterns showing abstract and
concrete objects and interactions. Described in Chapter 7.
ERP systems Large-scale systems that encapsulate generic business
functionality and rules are configured for an organization.
Legacy system wrapping Legacy systems (Chapter 9) are ‘wrapped’ by defining a set
of interfaces and providing access to these legacy systems
through these interfaces.
Model-driven engineering Software is represented as domain models and
implementation independent models and code is generated
from these models. Described in Chapter 5.
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14. Approaches that support software reuse
Approach Description
Program generators A generator system embeds knowledge of a type of
application and is used to generate systems in that domain
from a user-supplied system model.
Program libraries Class and function libraries that implement commonly used
abstractions are available for reuse.
Service-oriented systems Systems are developed by linking shared services, which
may be externally provided. Described in Chapter 18.
Software product lines An application type is generalized around a common
architecture so that it can be adapted for different customers.
Systems of systems Two or more distributed systems are integrated to create a
new system. Described in Chapter 20.
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15. Reuse planning factors
The development schedule for the software.
The expected software lifetime.
The background, skills and experience of the
development team.
The criticality of the software and its non-functional
requirements.
The application domain.
The execution platform for the software.
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17. Framework definition
“..an integrated set of software artefacts (such as
classes, objects and components) that collaborate to
provide a reusable architecture for a family of related
applications.”
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18. Application frameworks
Frameworks are moderately large entities that can be
reused. They are somewhere between system and
component reuse.
Frameworks are a sub-system design made up of a
collection of abstract and concrete classes and the
interfaces between them.
The sub-system is implemented by adding components
to fill in parts of the design and by instantiating the
abstract classes in the framework.
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19. Web application frameworks
Support the construction of dynamic websites as a front-
end for web applications.
WAFs are now available for all of the commonly used
web programming languages e.g. Java, Python, Ruby,
etc.
Interaction model is based on the Model-View-Controller
composite pattern.
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20. Model-view controller
System infrastructure framework for GUI design.
Allows for multiple presentations of an object and
separate interactions with these presentations.
MVC framework involves the instantiation of a number of
patterns (as discussed in Chapter 7).
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22. WAF features
Security
WAFs may include classes to help implement user authentication (login) and
access.
Dynamic web pages
Classes are provided to help you define web page templates and to populate
these dynamically from the system database.
Database support
The framework may provide classes that provide an abstract interface to different
databases.
Session management
Classes to create and manage sessions (a number of interactions with the
system by a user) are usually part of a WAF.
User interaction
Most web frameworks now provide AJAX support (Holdener, 2008), which allows
more interactive web pages to be created.
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23. Extending frameworks
Frameworks are generic and are extended to create a more
specific application or sub-system. They provide a skeleton
architecture for the system.
Extending the framework involves
Adding concrete classes that inherit operations from abstract
classes in the framework;
Adding methods that are called in response to events that are
recognised by the framework.
Problem with frameworks is their complexity which means
that it takes a long time to use them effectively.
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25. Framework classes
System infrastructure frameworks
Support the development of system infrastructures such as
communications, user interfaces and compilers.
Middleware integration frameworks
Standards and classes that support component communication
and information exchange.
Enterprise application frameworks
Support the development of specific types of application such as
telecommunications or financial systems.
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27. Software product lines
Software product lines or application families are
applications with generic functionality that can be
adapted and configured for use in a specific context.
A software product line is a set of applications with a
common architecture and shared components, with each
application specialized to reflect different requirements.
Adaptation may involve:
Component and system configuration;
Adding new components to the system;
Selecting from a library of existing components;
Modifying components to meet new requirements.
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28. Base systems for a software product line
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29. Base applications
Core components that provide infrastructure support.
These are not usually modified when developing a new
instance of the product line.
Configurable components that may be modified and
configured to specialize them to a new application.
Sometimes, it is possible to reconfigure these
components without changing their code by using a built-
in component configuration language.
Specialized, domain-specific components some or all of
which may be replaced when a new instance of a
product line is created.
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30. Application frameworks and product lines
Application frameworks rely on object-oriented features
such as polymorphism to implement extensions. Product
lines need not be object-oriented (e.g. embedded
software for a mobile phone)
Application frameworks focus on providing technical
rather than domain-specific support. Product lines
embed domain and platform information.
Product lines often control applications for equipment.
Software product lines are made up of a family of
applications, usually owned by the same organization.
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31. Product line architectures
Architectures must be structured in such a way to
separate different sub-systems and to allow them to be
modified.
The architecture should also separate entities and their
descriptions and the higher levels in the system access
entities through descriptions rather than directly.
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32. The architecture of a resource allocation system
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33. The product line architecture of a vehicle
dIspatcher
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34. Vehicle dispatching
A specialised resource management system where the aim is to
allocate resources (vehicles) to handle incidents.
Adaptations include:
At the UI level, there are components for operator display and
communications;
At the I/O management level, there are components that handle
authentication, reporting and route planning;
At the resource management level, there are components for
vehicle location and despatch, managing vehicle status and incident
logging;
The database includes equipment, vehicle and map databases.
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35. Product line specialisation
Platform specialization
Different versions of the application are developed for
different platforms.
Environment specialization
Different versions of the application are created to handle
different operating environments e.g. different types of
communication equipment.
Functional specialization
Different versions of the application are created for customers
with different requirements.
Process specialization
Different versions of the application are created to support
different business processes.
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37. Product instance development
Elicit stakeholder requirements
Use existing family member as a prototype
Choose closest-fit family member
Find the family member that best meets the requirements
Re-negotiate requirements
Adapt requirements as necessary to capabilities of the
software
Adapt existing system
Develop new modules and make changes for family member
Deliver new family member
Document key features for further member development
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38. Product line configuration
Design time configuration
The organization that is developing the software modifies a
common product line core by developing, selecting or adapting
components to create a new system for a customer.
Deployment time configuration
A generic system is designed for configuration by a customer or
consultants working with the customer. Knowledge of the
customer’s specific requirements and the system’s operating
environment is embedded in configuration data that are used by
the generic system.
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40. Levels of deployment time configuration
Component selection, where you select the modules in a
system that provide the required functionality.
Workflow and rule definition, where you define workflows
(how information is processed, stage-by-stage) and
validation rules that should apply to information entered
by users or generated by the system.
Parameter definition, where you specify the values of
specific system parameters that reflect the instance of
the application that you are creating
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42. Application system reuse
An application system product is a software system that
can be adapted for different customers without changing
the source code of the system.
Application systems have generic features and so can
be used/reused in different environments.
Application system products are adapted by using built-
in configuration mechanisms that allow the functionality
of the system to be tailored to specific customer needs.
For example, in a hospital patient record system, separate input
forms and output reports might be defined for different types of
patient.
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43. Benefits of application system reuse
As with other types of reuse, more rapid deployment of a reliable
system may be possible.
It is possible to see what functionality is provided by the applications
and so it is easier to judge whether or not they are likely to be
suitable.
Some development risks are avoided by using existing software.
However, this approach has its own risks, as I discuss below.
Businesses can focus on their core activity without having to devote
a lot of resources to IT systems development.
As operating platforms evolve, technology updates may be
simplified as these are the responsibility of the COTS product
vendor rather than the customer.
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44. Problems of application system reuse
Requirements usually have to be adapted to reflect the
functionality and mode of operation of the COTS product.
The COTS product may be based on assumptions that are
practically impossible to change.
Choosing the right COTS system for an enterprise can be a
difficult process, especially as many COTS products are not
well documented.
There may be a lack of local expertise to support systems
development.
The COTS product vendor controls system support and
evolution.
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45. Configurable application systems
Configurable application systems are generic application
systems that may be designed to support a particular
business type, business activity or, sometimes, a
complete business enterprise.
For example, an application system may be produced for
dentists that handles appointments, dental records, patient
recall, etc.
Domain-specific systems, such as systems to support a
business function (e.g. document management) provide
functionality that is likely to be required by a range of
potential users.
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46. COTS-solution and COTS-integrated systems
Configurable application systems Application system integration
Single product that provides the
functionality required by a customer
Several heterogeneous system products
are integrated to provide customized
functionality
Based around a generic solution and
standardized processes
Flexible solutions may be developed for
customer processes
Development focus is on system
configuration
Development focus is on system integration
System vendor is responsible for
maintenance
System owner is responsible for
maintenance
System vendor provides the platform for the
system
System owner provides the platform for the
system
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47. ERP systems
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a
generic system that supports common business
processes such as ordering and invoicing,
manufacturing, etc.
These are very widely used in large companies - they
represent probably the most common form of software
reuse.
The generic core is adapted by including modules and
by incorporating knowledge of business processes and
rules.
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49. ERP architecture
A number of modules to support different business
functions.
A defined set of business processes, associated with
each module, which relate to activities in that module.
A common database that maintains information about all
related business functions.
A set of business rules that apply to all data in the
database.
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50. ERP configuration
Selecting the required functionality from the system.
Establishing a data model that defines how the organization’s
data will be structured in the system database.
Defining business rules that apply to that data.
Defining the expected interactions with external systems.
Designing the input forms and the output reports generated by
the system.
Designing new business processes that conform to the
underlying process model supported by the system.
Setting parameters that define how the system is deployed on
its underlying platform.
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51. Integrated application systems
Integrated application systems are applications that
include two or more application system products and/or
legacy application systems.
You may use this approach when there is no single
application system that meets all of your needs or when
you wish to integrate a new application system with
systems that you already use.
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52. Design choices
Which individual application systems offer the most
appropriate functionality?
Typically, there will be several application system products
available, which can be combined in different ways.
How will data be exchanged?
Different products normally use unique data structures and
formats. You have to write adaptors that convert from one
representation to another.
What features of a product will actually be used?
Individual application systems may include more functionality
than you need and functionality may be duplicated across
different products.
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54. Service-oriented interfaces
Application system integration can be simplified if a
service-oriented approach is used.
A service-oriented approach means allowing access to
the application system’s functionality through a standard
service interface, with a service for each discrete unit of
functionality.
Some applications may offer a service interface but,
sometimes, this service interface has to be implemented
by the system integrator. You have to program a wrapper
that hides the application and provides externally visible
services.
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56. Application system integration problems
Lack of control over functionality and performance
Application systems may be less effective than they appear
Problems with application system inter-operability
Different application systems may make different assumptions
that means integration is difficult
No control over system evolution
Application system vendors not system users control
evolution
Support from system vendors
Application system vendors may not offer support over the
lifetime of the product
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57. Key points
There are many different ways to reuse software. These range from
the reuse of classes and methods in libraries to the reuse of
complete application systems.
The advantages of software reuse are lower costs, faster software
development and lower risks. System dependability is increased.
Specialists can be used more effectively by concentrating their
expertise on the design of reusable components.
Application frameworks are collections of concrete and abstract
objects that are designed for reuse through specialization and the
addition of new objects. They usually incorporate good design
practice through design patterns.
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58. Key points
Software product lines are related applications that are developed
from one or more base applications. A generic system is adapted
and specialized to meet specific requirements for functionality, target
platform or operational configuration.
Application system reuse is concerned with the reuse of large-scale,
off-the-shelf systems. These provide a lot of functionality and their
reuse can radically reduce costs and development time. Systems
may be developed by configuring a single, generic application
system or by integrating two or more application systems.
Potential problems with application system reuse include lack of
control over functionality and performance, lack of control over
system evolution, the need for support from external vendors and
difficulties in ensuring that systems can inter-operate.
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