An Integrated Framework for Code Reuse and Refactoring in Extreme Programming

Code reuse has been an area of study in the academic literature for the past three decades and is widely seen as one of the major areas for improving software productivity. Agile development techniques were first developed in the mid-1990s as a code-oriented method of software development that seeks to improve upon the traditional plan-based methodologies. Both approaches bring value to the software development process. The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework that will integrate the strengths of code reuse into the Extreme Programming methodology. It is believed that this approach will lead to a more effective method of software development.