The economics of software reuse

Griss, Martin; Adams, Sam; Baetjer, Howard; Cox, Brad; Goldberg, Adele

doi:10.1145/117954.117974

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“…Because these investment costs are generally not within the budget or schedule of a single software project, software developers and managers who are concerned more with short-term payoffs may be reluctant to support software reuse. To encourage reuse and to ensure proper evaluation in terms understood by management, research is needed on how to institutionalize the idea that reuse is an organization-wide investment [5] and that reusable software resources are financial assets [36].…”

Section: Benefits and Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Reuse: Survey and Research Directions

Kim

Stohr

1998

Journal of Management Information Systems

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Software reuse is the use of software resources from all stages of the software development process in new applications. Given the high cost and difficulty of developing high quality software, the idea of capitalizing on previous software investments is appealing. However, software reuse has not been as effective as expected and has not been very broadly or systematically used in industry. This paper surveys recent software reuse research using a framework that helps identify and organize the many factors that must be considered to achieve the benefits of software reuse in practice. We argue that software reuse needs to be viewed in the context of a total systems approach that addresses a broad range of technical, economic, managerial, organizational and legal issues and conclude with a summary of the major research issues in each of these areas.

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Section: Benefits and Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Reuse: Survey and Research Directions

Kim

Stohr

1998

Journal of Management Information Systems

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“…Although it has only been intensively achieved in Smalltalk environments (Griss, 1991), reuse within OO software projects still remains the great hope to increased quality and productivity in software development and maintenance. No wonder, then, that a considerable share of the work in OO metrics has to do with reuse.…”

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“…An important part of this effort has to be dedicated to the creation of effective mechanisms for collection, distribution, quality assessment and refinement of reusable items. To endorse the problem of assessing the cost/benefit of such a reuse program, as a mean of justifying (to the upper management) such an investment, some companies have already started to collect and analyse reuse metrics (Griss, 1991).…”

Section: Iviv -Reuse Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Candidate metrics for object-oriented software within a taxonomy framework

Abreu

Carapuça

1994

Journal of Systems and Software

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This paper offers an overview of the state-of-the-art in OO metrics as well as some new contributions. The usefulness of metrics is reviewed. The inappropriateness of "traditional" metrics to encompass development under the OO paradigm is discussed. A framework for classifying metrics is suggested. Metrics are classified along two vectors: category and granularity. The usefulness and rationale behind each category are presented. Candidate metrics are suggested within the proposed framework. Finally, some research directions that require further effort are identified. I -IntroductionObject-Oriented (OO) technology has been pointed out as being one of the keys for solving the software crisis problem. For the past few years we have witnessed a burst in the availability of OO analysis and design methodologies, languages, database management systems and tools. However, little work has been done in the area of management of OO software development.One of the key issues in the management of the development process is the capability to measure and record the relevant attributes of the software products and of the process itself in a structured, coherent framework. The availability of metrics helps managers in the staffing, costing, scheduling and controlling activities of the development life cycle and contributes to the overall objective of software quality. The need for software metrics is now fully recognized by the software engineering community and included in standards like the ISO 9000-3 (ISO, 1991a). This paper is organized as follows: section II reviews the reasons why metrics are needed within the software development process, when using the OO paradigm; section III introduces a classification framework for OO software metrics; section IV analyses the need for each category and introduces one possible selection of metrics; section V attempts to draw some conclusions and to suggest some research directions.

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