There are already a number of studies and "success stories" about practical applications related to software reuse. For the most part, however the actual benefits of reuse, particularly for concrete technologies are difficult to verify. As organizations implement systematic software reuse programs to improve productivity and quality, they must be able to measure their progress and identify the ...

This paper presents an empirical study of the software reuse activity by expert designers in the context of object-oriented design. Our study focuses on the three following aspects of reuse : (1) the interaction between some design processes, e.g. constructing a problem representation, searching for and evaluating solutions, and reuse processes, i.e. retrieving and using previous solutions, (2)...

Eunjung Lee ([email protected]) Department of Computer Science University of Houston Abstract This paper presents the assessed impact of software reuse. Software reuse is the process of using existing work products instead of building them from scratch. Reuse is assumed to be a very effective strategy for software industry to develop high productivity and high quality software. Here the present p...