| Summary: | In this paper a new Open Source Software
Framework called Modularity Framework is proposed and
analyzed for the first time. Study by several researchers such
as Dekoenigsberg and Gurbani have identified that
modularity is one of the key success factors of Open Source
Projects, but how modularity should be achieved in these
projects are not clearly understood. The primary
components of the proposed Software Framework, which
are Software Design Patterns and Software Components, are
analyzed against some parameters currently attributed to
software modularity such as module’s size, number of
modules, complexity, cohesion, and coupling / dependency
(fan in, and fan out). The result of the analysis shows that
the composition of these Design Patterns combined with
Software Components (interfaces and abstract classes) in a
form of Software Framework called Modularity Framework
is highly feasible.
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