Future of software reuse in Korea

Software reuse is generally received by both practitioners and researchers in Korea as one of the key elements in increasing productivity and improving quality of software, and there have been several isolated industry efforts and government funded researches since mid-1980s. The coverage of research areas has been unbalanced and most research efforts have concentrated on developing reusable libraries or issues related with reusable libraries such as component classification and retrieval. Reuse efforts up until recent years can be characterized as software engineering with reuse. In recent years, reuse research efforts are slowly progressing towards techniques for developing software for reuse, centring mostly around object-oriented techniques. Also, research areas are being broadened and diversified. Some recent academic and industrial research efforts are summarized