C.R.U.I.S.E - Component Reuse in Software Engineering, an on line book with a focus in Reuse in Software Engineering.

The C.R.U.I.S.E project

This is the first effort on mapping software reuse covering technical and nontechnical aspects, such as: key fields, component-based development, re-engineering, tools and environments, software component quality, metrics for reuse, repository, domain engineering process, among others.

The main idea of this projects is to construct an open channel for the software reuse community can contribute and improve the content of this book (i.e. SWEBOK) and share experience among different contexts, countries, etc.

The differences between C.R.U.I.S.E and others books about reuse

C.R.U.I.S.E contains an extremely through review and analysis of the software reuse area, by collecting and organizing the main research works into a picture of the state-of-the-art. However, C.R.U.I.S.E is much more than just a very thorough compendium of reuse research: this book focuses on issues ranging from technology to management and even human behavior.

Each issue was reviewed by experts, form academia and industry. Moreover, with the benefit of the lessons, knowledge and detailed information contained in the book, readers will step to a new level of understanding of the systematic processes and tools that are needed in order to successfully promote reuse in their organization.

This books intend to cover the existent gap in the reuse literature. The published books in the area did not present in an integrated framework aspects related to software reuse. The books covered some aspects in an isolated way, while in the research and industrial vision is needed books that included the roots of reuse, the failure and successes cases, the myths, the industrial projects around the world, and the methods, processes, metrics and tools to achieve a proper degree of reuse.

In this context, the C.R.U.I.S.E can be used by practitioners, software reuse researchers, lecturers and students alike, that can be seen as – maybe – the first to present a global picture of the area.

License

The C.R.U.I.S.E book is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share ALike 3.0 License.

External links

C.R.U.I.S.E web page