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Strategies for Effective Reuse and Design Patterns in Software Development

Explore the importance of reusing artifacts in software projects, design patterns, and component-based development. Learn about problems with reuse and various strategies for maximizing code reusability.

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Strategies for Effective Reuse and Design Patterns in Software Development

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  1. CM602: Effective Systems Development Lecture 10: Reuse, Design Patterns & Component-Based Development

  2. Outline • In this lecture we will consider • Why re-use is regarded as important • Some of the problems with re-use • Re-use with design patterns • Component-based development

  3. Question • Why is reuse regarded as important?

  4. What Software Project Artifacts Can Be Re-used? • OO designers are increasingly looking for opportunities to reuse old solutions and to make their successful designs available for reuse. • Requirements • Architecture • Code; class libraries; frameworks • Designs; design (and other) patterns • Documentation • Tests • Legacy (heritage) systems. The higher (more abstract) the level of the re-used artifacts, the greater the savings.

  5. Problems with Reuse • Inappropriate project choice • Planning for reuse too late • Level of coupling between classes • Lack of standards

  6. None Everything developed from scratch. Informal Code Reuse Programmers who trust each other swap code to save time during development. Black Box Re-use Some pieces of code engineered for re-use. Their use is mandated. Managed Workproduct Reuse An organisational structure is put into place to manage re-useable code Architected Reuse A common architecture is used for all development processes. Reuse Driven All software development is geared for maximum possible re-use. Jacobson’s 6 Levels of Reuse Adoption Ref: Jacobson et al, 1997

  7. Terminology • Design patterns • General solutions that can be applied to specific problems • Frameworks • Outline systems giving basic functionality • Slot in components for the specifics • E.g. component-based ERP systems • Idioms • Language-specific common techniques and preferred ways of expression

  8. What are Design Patterns? • Design patterns are ready made reusable OO analysis/design fragments which can support faster development of more efficient software. • They codify the ways in which expert designers tackle & solve particular commonly occurring design problems • Each pattern is a three-part rule which expresses a relation between a certain context, a problem, and a solution (ie a ready made pattern)

  9. What are Design Patterns? • Documenting patterns is one way that reuse can be used to share the information that has been learned about how best to solve a specific design problem. I.e. in a corporate pattern library • Many hundreds of patterns have been documented so far.

  10. Categories of Patterns • Creational • about construction of object instances • Structural • address issues concerned with the way in which classes and objects are organised • Behavioural • address the problems that arise when assigning responsibilities to classes (Gamma et al., 1995)

  11. Simpler maintenance, less to learn Standard methods of implementing functionality. Increase flexibility: Avoid creating objects directly “Abstract Factory” Avoiding hard coded operation requests “Command” Location independence “Proxy” Loose Coupling: “Observer”, “Command” Easier to alter existing classes “Decorator”, “Adapter” Ref: Gamma et al (1994). Patterns - Motivation for Use

  12. Behavioural Patterns Example: State • Consider the class Campaign. (Bennett et al, 2005) • It has four states—Commissioned, Active, Completed and Paid • A Campaign object has different behaviour depending upon which state it occupies • Operations have case statements giving this alternative behaviour • The class factored into separate components —one for each of its states

  13. Campaign CampaignState currentStateIdentifier addAdvert( ) calcCosts( ) addAdvert( ) changeState( ) calcCosts( ) Contains the object identifier of the current state object Commissioned Completed Active Paid addAdvert( ) calcCosts( ) addAdvert( ) calcCosts( ) addAdvert( ) calcCosts( ) addAdvert( ) calcCosts( ) Behavioural Patterns: State State pattern applied to the classCampaign

  14. Context State operation( ) operation( ) ConcreteStateA ConcreteStateB operation( ) operation( ) General form of State Pattern

  15. Problems with Patterns • Can limit creativity • Uncontrolled use may lead to over-design • Need culture of reuse

  16. Other patterns • Analysis patterns • E.g. Party, Organization Hierarchies (Fowler, 1996) • Interaction patterns • E.g. Favourites, Step-by-Step Instructions (van Welie & Traetteberg, 2000) • Organisational patterns • Organisational structure and process, especially for development processes (Coplien, 1995) • Architectural Patterns (both types!) • Architectures for various kinds of systems. • http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/p4/patterns/patterns.htm • Anti-patterns • Common bad solutions • Why they don’t work; what to do instead

  17. What is a component? • “A physical, replaceable part of a system that packages implementation and conforms to and provides the realisation of a set of interfaces. A component represents a physical piece of implementation of a system, including software code (source, binary or executable) or equivalents such as scripts or command files” (OMG, 1999) • “A component is an executable unit of code that provides physical black-box encapsulation of related services. Its services can only be accessed through a consistent, published interface that includes an interaction standard. A component must be capable of being connected to other components (through a communications interface) to form a larger group.” (Allen and Frost, 1998)

  18. What is a component? (2) • “A component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only. Context dependencies are specified by stating the required interfaces and the acceptable execution platform(s). A component is subject to composition by third parties. For the purposes of independent deployment, a component needs to be a binary unit.” (Szyperski, 1998) • “A component is a type, class, or any other workproduct that has been specifically engineered to be reusable.” (Jacobson et al., 1997)

  19. Granularity of components • Can be • Small-scale, e.g. • Common business routines, e.g. date handling • GUI widgets, e.g. VBX • Larger business routines, e.g. • Label printing • Meeting scheduling • General purpose modules, e.g. • Database connectivity • Web mail • Entire application system/subsystem • Contact management • Financial instruments

  20. Sources of components • Built for the purpose • Re-used from previous developments • Bought • Re-engineered from existing software • Repository of available components

  21. CBD claims • Delivers usable software more quickly • Reduces risk, raises reliability, because pre-existing components have already been tested. • Is this all that’s needed for reliability? • Maintainable – individual components can be replaced or redeveloped without affecting others • E.g. for enhancements, updating, performance tuning. • Flexible – component based software can be reconfigured to support changing business processes • Reusable software maximises return on investment

  22. Activity • You are a developer in an organisation that is about to begin CBD by ‘harvesting’ some components from existing systems and using these and purchased components in future developments. • What might you be concerned about?

  23. CBD Issues • Needs a good architecture • Locating and understanding components • Tool support • Now becoming available • Trust • Dependency management • People issues • Change in work pattern • Not Invented Here • More or less satisfying?

  24. Standards & Protocols • Essential to ensure interoperability. E.g. • CORBA • Web services • SOAP • XML • Java, Java Beans, EJB • COM, COM+, DCOM • Etc.

  25. Tool support for CBD • Which aspects of CBD? • Developing • Identifying & Managing • Integrating / Assembling • Useful facilities • Repository of components • Catalogue browsing, searching • Perhaps with interface to external sources • Business and design modelling – or interface to CASE tools • Graphical specification of how components are assembled • Configuration management • Build management

  26. Approaches to CBD • Revolutionary • Business wide set of generic components are produced from scratch. • Architectural approach. • Organisation-wide redevelopment, or component suppliers. • Evolutionary • Components are a ‘spin-off’ from development projects, and can then be reused on others. • Assembly • Systems are developed by assembling existing components – built, reused or bought. • Especially user organisations. (DSDM Consortium, 2003)

  27. Assembly CBD and DSDM • Focus is on reuse of business components. • Components provide business functionality and data handling – interface is built. • Identify areas where components could be used • Identify suitable components • Browse a repository? • Need to be documented in business terms • Used in prototypes • Testing throughout development addresses trust issues.

  28. Summary • A general overview of software reuse • What design patterns are, and how and when they are used –reusable fragments of OO analysis/design. • The major advantages of using design patterns in an OO software development project –speed, cost savings, easier maintenance, higher quality, less to learn. • The purpose of some well known patterns and an example of a behavioural pattern • The motivation for Component Based Development and some of the issues involved.

  29. To Read • On reuse: • Bennett et al. (2005), chapter 20. • On patterns: • Bennett et al. (2002), chapter 15. • Interesting perspective on component based development: • DSDM Consortium (2003), “DSDM and Component-Based Development,”http://www.dsdm.org/en/products/white_papers.asp [accessed 23/11/05].

  30. References • Allen, P. and Frost, S. (1998), Component-Based Development for Enterprise Systems: Applying The SELECT Perspective, CUP . • Bennett, S., McRobb, S. & Farmer, R. (2005), Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design using UML, 3rd edn., McGraw-Hill. • Coplien, J.O. (1995), “A Development Process Generative Pattern Language.” In J. O. Coplien and D. C. Schmidt, eds, Pattern Languages of Program Design, chapter 13, 183-237. Addison-Wesley. http://users.rcn.com/jcoplien/Patterns/Process/ • Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R. & Vlissides, J. (1994), Design Patterns – Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, • Jacobson, I., Griss, M. & Jonsson, P. (1997), Software Reuse: Architecture, Process and Organization for Business Success, Addison-Wesley. • Szyperski, C. (1998), Component Software, Wiley. • van Welie, M. & H Traetteberg, H. (2000), “Interaction Patterns in User Interfaces”, Proc. Seventh Pattern Languages of Programs Conference: PLoP 2000. http://www.knowlesys.com/technology/design/Interaction_Patterns_In_User_Interfaces.pdf

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