Domain engineering for developing software repositories: a case study

摘要

Software reuse promises to reduce software costs and shorten time to market, but despite major efforts undertaken by the software industry to boost the levels of reuse, there has been difficulty in installing workable repositories in corporate settings. This paper examines a promising approach to solving this problem, the methodology of Domain Engineering (DE). The paper reports the experiences of an oil and gas company that have successful adoption of DE to build a repository of software assets. Its goal is to provide practitioners with rich contextual information on both the technical and social issues involved in the development and deployment of software assets.