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Reuse Metrics

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Practical Software Reuse

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What to measure and how? After having pointed out important issues to be measured, this Chapter proposes a measurement approach based on business goals (applying the GQM framework).

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Ezran, M., Morisio, M., Tully, C. (2002). Reuse Metrics. In: Practical Software Reuse. Practitioner Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0141-3_6

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