TY - JFULL AU - Arun Sharma and Rajesh Kumar and P. S. Grover PY - 2007/10/ TI - A Critical Survey of Reusability Aspects for Component-Based Systems T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 419 EP - 424 VL - 1 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3086 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 9, 2007 N2 - The last decade has shown that object-oriented concept by itself is not that powerful to cope with the rapidly changing requirements of ongoing applications. Component-based systems achieve flexibility by clearly separating the stable parts of systems (i.e. the components) from the specification of their composition. In order to realize the reuse of components effectively in CBSD, it is required to measure the reusability of components. However, due to the black-box nature of components where the source code of these components are not available, it is difficult to use conventional metrics in Component-based Development as these metrics require analysis of source codes. In this paper, we survey few existing component-based reusability metrics. These metrics give a border view of component-s understandability, adaptability, and portability. It also describes the analysis, in terms of quality factors related to reusability, contained in an approach that aids significantly in assessing existing components for reusability. ER -