Software re-use assessment for quality

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been successfully demonstrated and guidelines are partially automated by a prototype tool called Reuse AnalyseR and Enhancer (RARE) which takes existing components and checks against a set of criteria, provides reuse advice and analysis, and generates assessment reports, and components that are improved for reuse.