Software Software Maintenance Concept and practise Chapter 8

Exercise 8.1 What do you reusability with maintenance? understand regard to by the software terms reuse development and reusabilty with regard to software evelopment and

Exercise 8.2 Describe the different sources of knowledge that can be reused and give examples.

Exercise 8.3 Give reasons why it is important instead of writing them from scratch. to reuse programs instead of writing them from scratch.

Exercise 8.4 What benefits can be derived from reusing software?

Exercise 8.5 Compare and contrast the different approaches to reuse, giving examples of systems that can be obtained from each of these approaches.

Exercise 8.6 You have just joined a team of software engineers in which you are the only one who has studied and practiced software reuse and reusability.

The company you work for has no reuse program although they are willing to start one. You are asked to implement the reuse program.

What is the first step you would take?

Outline the technical, managerial and organizational steps you would go through.

What tactics do you need to employ in order for the program to succeed?

What difficulties do you anticipate and how would you overcome them?

Exercise 8.7 A mechanical engineering contractor has been using a large and complex C software system for over 12 years. There is no documentation for the system and the maintenance programmers have moved to a different company. In order to take advantage of state-of-the-art parallel machines, the contractor wants the software to be re-implemented on a parallel platform.

Briefly describe the techniques that will be needed to accomplish the task.

How would you go about performing the job, bearing in mind the merits of software reuse?