Software reusability

A major problem in reusability is the creation of components that can be reused in applications other than the application for which they were originally designed. Software reusability has long held out the unrealized promise of increased productivity. It is accepted that within product development, reusing of software components will greatly reduce time and thus save money. It is our belief that the process to generate the domain model, and the techniques and tools necessary to develop the models are not understood by the software engineering community as a whole and even less so in the flight simulation community. We feel it is necessary to first understand the methodology and its ramifications which promotes the software reusability. The domain models will promote the reusability of software artifacts, other than code, which could be used in development of the next generation of flight simulation systems. This is a proposal to develop the process for domain modeling for flight simulation domain. The proposal will take into account the modeling techniques appropriate for software reusability for future flight simulators.