Today, even the development of business information systems is subject to the global offshoring trend. With the division of development work in an inter-organizational and intercultural context, requirements specifications become the central means to communicate the development scope as...

Oliver Skroch argues that the reuse of components and services counts among the few fundamental and most promising approaches to the development of high-quality and cost-effective application software. He presents research results related to strategic, tactic, and operational ranges of...