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Analyzing software Reuse at the project and module design levels

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ESEC '87 (ESEC 1987)

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Abstract

Reusing software may be the catalyst that helps the software community achieve large improvements in software productivity and quality. The purpose of this study is to characterize software reuse empirically by investigating one development environment that actively reuses software. Twenty-five software systems ranging from 3000 to 112,000 source lines have been selected for analysis from a NASA production environment. The amount of software either reused or modified from previous systems averages 32% per project in this environment. Analysis of variance models are applied to examine 46 dependent variables across the 7188 software modules in the systems. The analysis focuses on the characterization of software reuse at the project and module design levels.

This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant DCR-8521398.

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, 92717, Irvine, California, USA

    Richard W. Selby

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Selby, R.W. (1987). Analyzing software Reuse at the project and module design levels. In: Nichols, H., Simpson, D. (eds) ESEC '87. ESEC 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022114

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