7.1. The cluster cycle process model of framework development and adaptation

Object-oriented development techniques rely on the same activities as those described in conventional process models – that is, analysis, specification, design, implementation, test, and maintenance. Unfortunately, methods such as the Unified Process (Jacobson et al. 1999) suggest slightly different but synonymous terms. In the following material, note that we deliberately use references dating back more than a decade to corroborate that the coarse-grained characteristics of reuse-centered development have been well known for some years.

Classical software development strategies do not focus on the reusability of software components. Meyer (1989) remarks that 'object-orientedness ...

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