Special issue on the effects of frameworks and patterns on software reuse Andrea Valerio The information technology market is characterized by rapid changes, both caused from technology evolution and the difficulties in transferring the new technologies in both products and processes. On the other hand the software industry is facing an ever increasing demand for new and more sophisticated applications, direct expression of new customer expectations concerning software applications. The interest in the software process and in its development dynamics has grown in these last year as a response to the need to increase productivity and quality, while reducing time-to-market and taking into consideration maintenance aspects. But it has not (yet) reached the expected results, and every day software projects overrun the estimated budget and schedule, or at worse they are stopped. Is this the ever-green software crisis? Is there a final solution to the problems of software industries? Software firms seem to face a chronic disease that results in the inability to adequately respond to the market demand. It is the natural adaptation to the evolution and rapid changes that both the external environment and the internal conditions are undergoing. Together with this movement towards a formalized
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