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Software reuse in an educational perspective

  • Session 2: University Perspective on Industry-Oriented Courses and Software Reuse
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Software Engineering Education (SEI 1992)

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Abstract

Software is largely developed from scratch, whereas other engineering disciplines tend to use mass produced, off-the-shelf components. Reuse still fails to have any massive impact in the software field beyond the low level functional libraries provided with various compilers.

We believe that this can partly be attributed to the neglect of reuse in the current software engineering education. This is illustrated by the contents of the computer science subjects at our university (NTH), which is believed to be representative of the international mainstream.

Based on our work in the REBOOT project, we divide the problems concerning reuse into a set of major topics which we think should be covered in a thorough software engineering education and discuss how reuse could be included in the curriculum.

Stålhane is with SINTEF-DELAB.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), N-7034, Trondheim, Norway

    Guttorm Sindre, Even-André Karlsson & Tor Stålhane

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Sindre, G., Karlsson, EA., Stålhane, T. (1992). Software reuse in an educational perspective. In: Sledge, C. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55963-9_42

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