- As noted in Tracz [15], management and economic reasons can also hinder
software reuse. However, in the following we assume the existence of
appropriate management structures that encourage and reward software reuse.
- Ada is a registered trademark of the U.S. Government (Ada Joint Program
Office).
- We have successfully developed a metric for module cohesion [10]. We have
also established some criteria that lead to undesiriable coupling and are in
the process of proposing a measure for module coupling.
- Note that it is not necessary to always have a executable object file of
the component. Rather the component may itself be a application generator or
some expert system that can synthesize the required executable image.