Applying Reuse Contracts in a Product Line Approach Presented at the OOPSLA’98 Workshop on Object Technology and Product Lines

Introduction Our research on reuse contracts demonstrated how a better documentation of the dependencies between reusable assets and their reusers can help in managing the evolution of reusable assets and in achieving disciplined reuse. However, in trying to apply our results to product lines we still encounter multiple problems. This position paper shortly introduces reuse contracts and then raises some topics of research we feel are crucial in order to set up successful product lines.