In this paper I take the position that at this moment we do not have insight in the software engineering process and as reuse is a software engineering process directed towards using existing (partial) solutions, we do not have insight in the reuse process either. We just do things without being able to explain why things work, should work, go wrong, etc. The only explanations given are based on common sense which is not enough from the scientific point of view.
Keywords: science, methods, techniques, process
Workshop Goals: Learning; networking; advance state of
theory of reusable position papers.
Working Groups: reuse process models, reuse maturity models,
reuse education, reuse and OO, reuse and formal methods