Dealing with components reusability issues as cutting-edge applications turn legacy

Cutting-edge technologies play major roles in our daily lives and businesses. They are used by businesses to gain competitive advantage even as individuals use them to simplify their routine activities. However, these technologies are driven by cutting-edge applications (simply called Apps) that are deployed on devices like iPhone, iPad, laptop computers, desktop computers and the like. Just like every other type of application, cutting-edge applications will one day turn legacy and becomes difficult to extend their usable life through maintenance, hence modernization becomes inevitable with components reusability a major issue. This research therefore, presents a technique for dealing with components reusability issues that may arise as cutting-age applications turn legacy using their maintenance data with software maturity index. It also presents components stability assessment and ranking scheme that could be used by professionals to rank legacy components in a manner that could guide the choice of quality and stable components for reuse in modernization.