Title
Successful Reuse of Software Components: A Report from the Open Source Perspective.
Abstract
A promising way of software reuse is Component-Based Software Development (CBSD). There is an increasing number of OSS products available that can be freely used in product development. However, OSS communities themselves have not yet taken full advantage of the "reuse mechanism". Many OSS projects duplicate effort and code, even when sharing the same application domain and topic. One successful counter-example is the FFMpeg multimedia project, since several of its components are widely and consistently reused into other OSS projects. This paper documents the history of the libavcodec library of components from the FFMpeg project, which at present is reused in more than 140 OSS projects. Most of the recipients use it as a black-box component, although a number of OSS projects keep a copy of it in their repositories, and modify it as such. In both cases, we argue that libavcodec is a successful example of reusable OSS library of components.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Software reuse,OSS components,component-based software development
Field
DocType
Volume
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Reuse,Computer science,Software,Application domain,Component-based software engineering,Software development,New product development
Conference
365
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1868-4238
6
0.50
References 
Authors
31
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Capiluppi148842.51
Cornelia Boldyreff246456.05
Klaas-Jan Stol354631.84