Component
Development
Component
based software development (CBSD) focuses on building large software systems by
integrating previously-existing software components.
By enhancing the flexibility and maintainability of systems, this
approach can potentially be used to reduce software development
costs, assemble systems rapidly, and reduce the spiraling maintenance burden associated
with the support and upgrade of large systems. At the foundation of this approach
is the assumption that certain parts of large software systems reappear with sufficient
regularity that common parts should be written once, rather than many times, and
that common systems should be assembled through reuse rather than rewritten over
and over. CBSD embodies the "buy, don't build" philosophy espoused by Fred Brooks
. CBSD is also referred to as component-based software engineering (CBSE).
