A Radio Monitoring Oriented Reusable Software Framework And Its Application

Software reuse is a process during which present software elements or artifacts are used to construct a new system effectively. OOA/OOD, design patterns and component technology are effective to make a good reuse. Framework is an advanced software reuse technology that can be customized by application. It is composed by a group of components that can be interacted with each other by using component-owned methods. This article presented a framework build method based on radio monitoring domain and it's application. Firstly, as a base of constructing reusable framework, the typical business of radio monitoring must be analyzed and the common characteristic must be summarized. Secondly, in system analysis and design phase, framework was built with the creation of application simultaneously by using mature software reuse method. Framework was core of the application and the application was carrier of the framework. The relationship of them was tight and they were evolving together. At last, when application project completed the main part of framework was constructed as well. Furthermore this framework can be used as the start point of the next development and can be optimized persistently. As this framework building method was a step-by-step procedure, the cost was decreased. The level of framework reuse can be controlled according to the actual requirement and it was fit for the middle or small software company. When developing National Shortwave Monitoring Network System, a simple and elegant system structure was built by using the framework construction method mentioned above, a radio monitoring oriented framework was also constructed at the same time and it should be used in the next development. The model of application framework constructing and reusing in this article was significant as a reference in the other domain.