Strategies for Designing and Building Reusable Software Components

This paper presents time proven methods and strategies for creating, managing, and accessing a library of reusable software components and also software engineering strategies for designing and building reusable components with proper planning and execution, these methodologies will bring significant cost saving. In addition, cost-benefit guidelines are developed to help an organization decide when the benefits involved in implementing reusable coding procedures outweigh the implementation overhead. Specific recommendations are made for code documentation practices, software design, and management procedures that encourage and result in successful code reuse practices. This paper will address how to deal with specific application data dependencies and software engineering components for portability across different data models.