The Management of Component-Based Software Development

Abstract

CBD has its roots in manufacturing. The trend to develop products that have a Component-Based or modular architecture is well established in automotive, electronics, aircraft and other manufacturing types of industries.¹ Since the mid-1960s, when the concept of modular production (Starr 1965) was introduced, modular (later referred to as component-based) product architectures became dominant in manufacturing industries.

The whole idea is that we can take the bunch of different components and create a different instrument within weeks is kind of optimistic, but within a few months rather than in a few years.

(Director of Software Engineering, LeCroy)