CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch2 S20 CR

Introduction to Code Reuse

Categories of Code Reuse

Internal Code Reuse

Suppose a team needs to start a new project.In order to start the project the team can use all possible reusable components that it has built earlier instead of again re-creating them.Such usage of reusable components is referred as Internal Code Reuse.Few such examples of Internal Code reuse are :

• Simple Copy and Paste of the Code

Here we simply try to find the source code that perform the required functionality.We copy and paste the source code into our required code area.But in this case people sometimes try to copy from an external source which is discouraged method and it leads to plagiarism.

• Software Library