The role of opportunism in the software design reuse process

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 418-436

  Sen, Arun ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive model; Cognitive study; Opportunism; Reusability; Reuse library managers; Software design; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000303982     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.605760     Document Type: Article

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