Author : N Md Jubair Basha, Humera Sabhia and Md Abdul Rawoof Sayeed

Software Components plays a vital role in the software development process in software industry. There are different artifacts executed throughout the life cycle of the process, each will have it’s own prominence in the work products achievement. The reuse of each work product helps in the reduction of cost, reduces maintenance, reduces testing efforts as the benefits. When different components are evolved in different environments in the repository, there is a dire need of designing reusable components is still an issue. There are different approaches discussed literature which has it’s own consequences. Many of them were proposed and only considered the code as component in a isolated environment. The issue of incompatability of legacy components motivates to propose the approach for the generation of reusable design components from legacy components and reuse levels in different environments. This approach will helps the software developers for faster software development.

Keywords: Software components, reuse levels, legacy components, component based software development

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec-2014)