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| Title: | REUSE AND PRODUCTIVITY IN INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY |
| Authors: | Banker, Rajiv D.
Kauffman, Robert J. |
| Keywords: | CASE
ICASE
productivity measurement
reuse
software development
software economics
software engineering |
| Issue Date: | Apr-1992 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-92-15 |
| Abstract: | Growing competition in the investment banking industry has given rise to
increasing demand for high functionality software applications that can
be developed in a short period of time. Yet delivering such applications
creates a bottleneck in software development activities. This dilemma
can be addressed when firms shift to development methods that emphasize
software reusability. This article examines the productivity
implications of object and repository-based integrated computer-aided
software engineering (ICASE) software development in the context of a
major investment bank's information systems strategy. The strategy
emphasizes software reusability. Our empirical results, based on data
from 20 projects that delivered software for the bank's New Trades
Processing Architecture (NTPA), indicate an order of magnitude gain in
software development productivity and the importance of reuse as a
driver in realizing this result. In addition, results are presented on
the extent of the learning that occurred over a two-year period after
ICASE was introduced, and on the influence of the link between
application characteristics and the ICASE tool set in achieving
development performance. This work demonstrates the viability of the
firm's IS strategy and offers new ideas for code reuse and software
development productivity measurement that can be applied in development
environments that emphasize reuse. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14331 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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