Taxonomy, Definition, Approaches, Benefits, Reusability Levels, Factors and Adaption of Software Reusability: A Review of the Research Literature

An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow

“…The classification process consists of reading title, questions, answers and comments to classify them based on various aspects, including the technology used, programming language, and category of reuse. The reuse categories were extracted from the systematic literature review, performed by Ahmaro et al [2], on papers published from 1977 to 2013 on the different concepts surrounding Software Reusability. In this work, Ahmaro et al [2] identified the following categories: design patterns, component-based development, application frameworks, legacy system wrapping, service-oriented systems, application product lines, commercial off-the-shelf integration, program libraries, program generators, aspect-oriented software development and configurable vertical applications.…”

“…The reuse categories were extracted from the systematic literature review, performed by Ahmaro et al [2], on papers published from 1977 to 2013 on the different concepts surrounding Software Reusability. In this work, Ahmaro et al [2] identified the following categories: design patterns, component-based development, application frameworks, legacy system wrapping, service-oriented systems, application product lines, commercial off-the-shelf integration, program libraries, program generators, aspect-oriented software development and configurable vertical applications. This set of categories was also supported by Younoussi et al [25] whose work consisted of another systematic literature review on All about Software Reusability.…”

“…This section, although not accounting for all available work, does its best in presenting multiple papers from the different ways reusability is discussed. Previous work discussed general aspects of reusability, identifying challenges, topics, issues and principles [2,4,8,12,15,18,24,25]. AlOmar et al [4] studied how developers refactor their code to improve its reuse by analyzing the impact of reusability refactorings on the state-of-the-art reusability metrics.…”

“…AlOmar et al [4] studied how developers refactor their code to improve its reuse by analyzing the impact of reusability refactorings on the state-of-the-art reusability metrics. Ahmaro et al [2] conducted a systematic literature review to identify the definition, approaches, benefits, reusability levels, factors, and adaption of software reusability. The authors found that the concept of software reusability comprised of 11 approaches, namely, design patterns, component-based development, application frameworks, legacy system wrapping, service-oriented systems, application product lines, COTS integration, program libraries, program generators, aspect-oriented software development and configurable vertical applications.…”