Article Free Access Share on The software engineering laboratory: an operational software experience factory Authors: Victor Basili View Profile , Gianluigi Caldiera View Profile , Frank McGarry View Profile , Rose Pajerski View Profile , Gerald Page View Profile , Sharon Waligora View Profile Authors Info & Claims ICSE '92: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineeringJune 1992 Pages 370–381https://doi.org/10.1145/143062.143154Online:01 June 1992Publication History 50citation892DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations50Total Downloads892Last 12 Months30Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Software reuse can be achieved through an organization that focuses on utilization of life cycle products from previous developments. The component factory is both an example of the more general concepts of experience and domain factory and an organizational unit worth being considered independently. The critical features of such an organization are flexibility and continuous improvement. In order to achieve these features we can represent the architecture of the factory at different levels of abstraction and define a reference architecture from which specific architectures can be derived by instantiation. A reference architecture is an implementation and organization independent representation of the component factory and its environment. The paper outlines this reference architecture, discusses the instantiation process, and presents some examples of specific architectures by comparing them in the framework of the reference model.

The problems related to the analysis and reengineering of existing software in order to reuse it are discussed. The authors introduce a process model for component extraction and focus on the problem of analyzing and qualifying software components which are candidates for reuse. A prototype tool for supporting the extraction of reusable components is presented. One of the components of this tool aids in understanding programs and is based on the functional model of correctness. It can assist software engineers in the process of finding correct formal specifications for programs. A detailed description of this component and an example to demonstrate a possible operational scenario are given.>