WISR 1993 Design-for-Reuse Working Group Report

Doug Lea (chair) -- SUNY Oswego
Bill Frakes (co-chair) -- VPI & SU
John Beidler -- University of Scranton
Silvana Catano -- Politecnico Di Milano
Pete Cornwell -- University of York
Maggie Davis -- Boeing
Pankaj Garg -- HP Labs
Joe Hollingsworth -- Indiana University
Voytek Kozaczynski -- Anderson Consulting
Mitch Lubars -- EDS
Eric Newton -- IBM FSC
Will Tracz -- IBM FSC

November 3, 1993 (Formatted for HTML April 1995)

The goal of this group activity was to produce a list of language independent principles for ``design-for-reuse.'' This document contains only very brief outlines and transcriptions of the results.

• Terms
• Composition Model
• Principles
  • Identify and encapsulate commonality and variability.
  • Separate interfaces and implementations.
  • Minimize the number of names per namespace.
  • Extend and refine interfaces by addition.
  • Use layering.
  • Minimize import requirements.
  • Maximize composibility.
  • Isolate context.
  • Use parameterization to reflect contextual variablity.
  • Build policy on top of mechanism.
  • Build control on top of functionality.
  • Integrate documentation.
  • Integrate testing.
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