Software Engineering (10th Edition)
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Author: Ian Sommerville
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Chapter 15, Problem 15.3E
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The four circumstances where software reusability can be recommended against are:
- Increased maintenance costs: software reusability is not favorable in this case as the unavailability of source code increases the maintenance cost.
- Lack of tool support: in this case, there are many tools that do not support development with reuse as it may be difficult to integrate these tools with a component library system...
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