April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
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Chapter 14. Software Product Lines: Re-using Architectural Assets
with Linda Northrop
Note: Linda Northrop is a member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute.
In 1969, McIlroy first recognized the need for an industry of re-usable software components, but since then, this has continued to be an elusive goal for the software community. It is therefore fair to ask the question: If the benefits of re-usable software components are so overwhelming, why doesn't this practice already pervade the whole of computer science?
—Grady Booch [Booch 94]
14.1 Overview
A software architecture represents a significant investment of time and effort, usually by senior talent. So it is natural to want to maximize the return on this ...