Influence on Product Development

Advantages

• Many existing elements available for reuse (what)
• Flexible reuse granulariy (how)
• Easier porting (where)
• Improve, fix, support

Problems

• Divergent evolution
• Code bloat
• Inadvertently deep dependencies
• Dependency management
• Licensing
• Quality control

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