With the long experience Wipro has had in developing Government IT solutions on a diverse set of technologies, we have developed reusable frameworks that slash development time by up to 75%. These ready-to-deploy solutions form an integral part of our delivery model, providing government clients with critical cost and time advantages.

Reuse initiative
With the acceptance of object oriented methodology popularly as a software development methodology, software reuse has taken on a whole new dimension. As object oriented methodology ensures that the interface of a given functionality is isolated from it's implementation, the ability to develop reusable components and reuse them has become very high. This ability has given rise to many hopes and promises in that many industry experts foresee future software industry to be consisting of only two activities -

	Development of reusable components and
	Assembling and customizing reusable components to develop an application

Despite this promise and vision, on the ground, the level of reuse that is realized by various government IT departments is very less. Wipro has examined these reasons in depth and has arrived at an enterprise reuse solution to ensure that government organizations that take up reuse initiative realize the return on investment (ROI).

Challenges in a reuse initiative
Wipro Technologies has spearheaded significant research to analyze the barriers for realizing the ROI for reuse to arrive at the solution that it has developed. These barriers are listed as reuse challenges below:

Reusable component development

1. How to ensure that the components are application-developer friendly? How do we ensure that the component developers take into account not only the end-user requirements into consideration while developing the component, but also take into account the application developer's requirements.
2. How to ensure that the components are of high quality? What review check-lists do we use?

Organization-wide reuse

1. How to ensure that components get developed and contributed to a repository on a sustained basis?
2. How to ensure that the developers actually reuse the available components? What type of buy-in should be created? What type of organizational policies should be created?
3. How does the management track that the components actually get reused?
4. How does the management measure the ROI of reuse initiative?

Wipro's reuse solution
Wipro Technologies has come up with an enterprise reuse solution called "Reusable Assets Framework" that addresses all the above challenges and it consists of

• Processes for identifying, developing, deploying and reusing components.
• A central team that reviews, tests, and certifies all developed components.
• Tracking mechanism to enable senior management to track the processes
• A reuse repository to host developed reusable components.
• A methodology to develop reusable components
• Various artifacts such as tutorial, document templates, report templates, review checklists etc.

Reuse repository
Wipro Technology has a central reuse repository that hosts all the reusable components developed. Currently it contains about 110 components that are mainly Java based. The contributions are expected to diversify to include components of all technologies in the near future.

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