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| Title: | REPOSITORY EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE REUSE |
| Authors: | Banker, Rajiv D.
Kauffman, Robert J.
Zweig, Dani |
| Keywords: | CASE
computer-aided software engineering
domain analysis
organizational learning
repositories
software metrics
software reuse |
| Issue Date: | Apr-1993 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-93-28 |
| Abstract: | The traditional unit of analysis and control for software managers is
the software project, and subsequently the resulting application system.
Today, with the emerging capabilities of computer-aided software
engineering (CASE) and corresponding changes in the development process,
productivity gains can be realized by reusing portions of the
organization's inventory of existing application designs and code. With
this opportunity, however, comes the need to monitor software reuse at
the corporate level, as well as at the level of the individual software
development project. Integrated CASE environments can support such
monitoring. We illustrate the use and benefits of repository evaluation
of software reuse through an analysis of the evolving repositories of
two large firms that recently implemented integrated CASE development
tools. The analysis shows that these tools have supported high levels of
software reuse, but it also suggests that there remains considerable
unexploited reuse potential. Our findings indicate that organizational
changes will be required before the full potential of the new technology
can be realized. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14264 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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