The design and implementation of multimedia reusable components

Abstract

Software reuse has been considered an effective approach to improve software productivity and software quality. Reusable Software Components (RSC) are the basic building blocks for software construction based on the software reuse practice. Multimedia technology has played an important role in today's application software due to its friendly user interaction as well as its naturally fitting on real world modeling. We, therefore, extended reusable software components to incorporate with multimedia. In other words, the reusable software components include not only code and documents, but also voice narration, animation sequences and message mechanisms. We called such software components as Multimedia Reusable Components (MRCs). Based on these developed MRCs, an interactive multimedia software can be constructed easily, such as entertainment CD title and visual software requirement authoring tool. In this paper we propose the Multimedia Reusable Component and discuss its application on visual requirement representation.