SOFTWARE REUSE:A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

摘要

Many factors affect a product's success in the marketplace.Important elements are time to market,product cost and quality.Consequently,companies are continually looking for ways to get products to the customer faster,while reducing product cost and delivering higher quality.Companies who achieve this have a competitive advantage in the marketplace.At AT&T,we have found that large-scale software reuse is an important factor in achieving these results.AT&T has been applying large.scale software reuse to software system design and development,and our results have been impressive.We have significantly reduced our development costs and time to market,while improving the quality of our systems.This paper will focus on our approach to software reuse,our use of AT&T's RAPID/NM software platform to achieve reuse,and our results in applying reuse in a wide range of software systems.