Object-Oriented Development With and For Reuse

Object-oriented system development is coupled to reuse in the REBOOT project. By a holistic approach with development of a reuse database, tools, components for selected areas and a reuse methodology the REBOOT environment will support the software development process. Keywords: Reuse, object-oriented design, classification 1 Introduction This article gives an overview of parts of the reuse methodology work done within the Esprit project REBOOT (Reuse Based on Object-Oriented Techniques) and related Norwegian projects NSR and SISU. The reuse methodology work within REBOOT consists of ffl a study of the legal and organizational aspects of reuse. ffl a development of guidelines how to use and adapt object-oriented techniques to get reuse. ffl a scheme for classifying and describing components so that they can be retrieved, understood, evaluated and reused. In this article we will concentrate on the work done on the two last points. The rest of this article is organized as follows sec..