Systems Reuse Tools and Projects

 During our commercial histoy, and due to our origins,  The Reuse Company has developed a set of products which main purpose has been Systems/Software reuse. In the first years of the 21^st century we commercialized the SW Reuser (a CASE tool providing integral traceability and reuse, integrated in the Reuse Studio as thick client solutions). This CASE tool has been the forerunner of the present Requirements Quality Analyzer and, mainly, of our product named Requirements Reuser.

To implant Reuse within organizations has not been up to now a “pain-free” process. Besides the need to apply radical changes in the way to perform Systems Engineering, as well as the organization of massive training activities, the reuse adoption has suffered of real ROI problems. Reuse has been a positive practice but expensive.

The Reuse Company has developed the Incremental Reuse method (IRM) as an alternative to classical reuse programs.

The main features of the IRM are:

• Not dependence of the selected SDP
• Integral Traceability (Trace Forced SDP)
• Search Based SDP (Enhanced Retrieval Capabilities)
• Knowledge representation based on Ontologies
• Tools Support
• Support for Reuse Operations
• ROI is not a relevant issue