Background

The Australian Centre for Unisys Software (ACUS) is the primary centre for research and development activities for Unisys in Australia. It was created in 1987 and has since established itself as a software centre specialising in the development of distributed applications and graphical user interfaces. Object oriented languages have been used at ACUS since 1988.

In October of last year (1992), the position of 'reusability engineer' was created to ensure that the benefits of reuse that object oriented languages claim to support were being realised in the organisation. The roles of the reusability engineer are primarily aimed at establishing a culture of reuse within ACUS and to develop a library of in-house and third party reusable objects (designs, code, test harnesses, etc). These roles are specified in more detail in the following sections.

Subsections

Creation and Maintenance of Reusable objects
Involvement in Project Design
Alterations to Existing Development Processes:
Development of Reusable Frameworks
Corporate Strategy Development
Research Activities and University Contacts