Balancing generality and specificity in component-based reuse

David Eichmann; Jon Beck

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Balancing generality and specificity in component-based reuse

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Balancing generality and specificity in component-based reuse

David Eichmann and Jon Beck

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NTRS

05/20/1992

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Abstract

For a component industry to be successful, we must move beyond the current techniques of black box reuse and genericity to a more flexible framework supporting customization of components as well as instantiation and composition of components. Customization of components strikes a balanced between creating dozens of variations of a base component and requiring the overhead of unnecessary features of an 'everything but the kitchen sink' component. We argue that design and instantiation of reusable components have competing criteria - design-for-use strives for generality, design-with-reuse strives for specificity - and that providing mechanisms for each can be complementary rather than antagonistic. In particular, we demonstrate how program slicing techniques can be applied to customization of reusable components.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE

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Title: Subtitle: Balancing generality and specificity in component-based reuse
Creators: David Eichmann
Jon Beck
Resource Type: Preprint
Publication Details: STI Repository
Publisher: NTRS
Number of pages: 26 pages
Comment: Submitted to The Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
Language: English
Date posted: 05/20/1992
Academic Unit: Library and Information Science
Record Identifier: 9984003005202771

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