1.3. Pros and cons of frameworks
Frameworks offer several advantages. Besides the fact that reuse of architecture design amounts to a standardization of the application structure, adapting a framework to produce specific applications implies a significant reduction in the size of the source code that has to be written by the application programmer. Mature frameworks allow a reduction of up to 90% (Weinand et al., 1989; Fayad et al., 1999a, b, c) compared to software written with the support of a conventional function library.
More good news is that framework-centered software development is not restricted to specific domains, such as graphic user interfaces (GUIs). Actually, frameworks are well-suited to almost any commercial or technical domain. ...
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