Engineering software reuse for on-board embedded real-time systems

  • Authors:
  • Tullio Vardanega;Gert Caspersen

  • Affiliations:
  • European Space Research and Technology Centre, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands;Terma, Bregnerodvej 144, 3460 Birkerod, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The dimensions of concern to ambitious reuse initiatives largely exceed the provision of desired functionalities. A domain-specific blend of functional, technical and quality considerations determines the reuse potential of software reuse assets. In a recent project we realized considerable reuse dividends from coupling the definition of a reference software architecture and of an associated set of standard interfaces with the selection of a powerful computational model equipped with reuse-geared enabling technology. In this paper we present our engineering approach to the project and show how it earned us a good balance between the preservation of predictability and scalability and the maximization of the reuse objective.