Books in the Software Science and Engineering series

Software Engineering and Environment examines the various aspects of software development, describing a number of software life cycle models. Featuring an abundance of helpful illustrations, this cogent work is an excellent resource for project managers, programmers, and other computer scientists involved in software production.

By reusing previously developed engineering products the amount of new product and the number of development steps can be reduced. There has to be a prior investment in creating "libraries of reuse products before reuse can be successfuL .