Reuse: the Pros and Cons

Pros

• Increased reliability
• Fewer development risks
• Capitalise on expert skills
• Adopt standards
• Decrease development time

Cons

• Application maintenance
• Long term reused code maintenance
• Tool support
• Not invented here syndrome
• Searching, evaluating, and adopting reused code

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