Software Implementation Issues: Reuse and Configuration Management

At the abstraction level, you don’t reuse software directly but use knowledge of successful ______ in the design of your software.

At the object level, you directly reuse objects from a ______ rather than writing the code yourself.

Components are collections of objects and object classes that you reuse in ______ systems.

Open source development is an approach to software development in which the source code of a software system is published and volunteers are invited to participate in the ______ process.

Many product companies are using an open source approach to ______.

Most modern software is constructed by reusing existing components or systems. When you are developing software, you should make as much use as possible of existing ______.

During the development process, you have to keep track of the many different versions of each software component in a configuration management ______.

Production software does not usually execute on the same computer as the software development environment. Rather, you develop it on one computer (the host system) and execute it on a separate computer (the ______ system).

From the 1960s to the 1990s, most new software was developed from scratch, by writing all code in a high-level programming language. The only significant reuse of software was the reuse of functions and objects in programming language ______.

An approach to development based around the reuse of existing software emerged and is now generally used for business and scientific ______.