BUILDING REUSABLE COMPONENTS THROUGH PROJECT EVOLUTION ANALYSIS

A methodological approach apt to facilitate reuse of project components by exploiting temporal information related to actual project evolution, is presented. A temporal model is defined to represent, in a repository, project histories and reuse histories in different applications. The approach is intended to support the reuse engineer in determining candidate project components for reuse and in maintaining existing reusable components in the repository. Reusability of conceptual components, in the framework of information systems conceptual design, is considered.