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Task 6: Analyze
Reusable Components
and Their Sources
11.1 Introduction
During this MFESA task, the system or subsystem architecture team identifies and evaluates
potentially reusable components and their sources (Figure 11.1).
Many of the most important architectural decisions typically revolve around how to decom-
pose the system or subsystem being architected into lower-level architectural elements. While
some of these lower-level architectural elements will probably have to be developed from scratch,
several of them should probably be reused from various sources:
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components from product and componen ...