AN APPROACH TO SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT BASED ON HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENT REUSE AND ITS SUPPORTING SYSTEM

Software reuse is considered as a practical approach to solving the so ftware crisis. The BD-HCRUS, a software development supporting system based on heterogeneous component reuse, is introduced. The system has a reusable component library as its kernel in charge of the organizati on, storage and retrieval of the heterogeneous components, an object-o riented integrated language for the specification and composition of t he heterogeneous components, and program comprehension tools for rever se-engineering and extracting reusable components from source code, th en re-engineering the components. Therefore, a whole support is lent s ystematically to the acquisition, specification, organization, storage , retrieval and composition of reusable components.