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| Title: | ON THE NEED FOR TOOLS TO SUPPORT SEARCH IN SOFTWARE REUSE: A
Perspective Paper Presented to Seer Technologies, Inc. |
| Authors: | Isakowitz, Tomas
Kauffman, Robert J. |
| Issue Date: | Jun-1992 |
| Publisher: | Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Series/Report no.: | IS-92-41 |
| Abstract: | Software reuse in the presence of a repository and object-based CASE
tool is likely to be "biased." Prior research (Banker,
Kauffman and Zweig, 1991) showed that a developer will be: most likely
to reuse her own objects; somewhat less likely to reuse objects
developed by her project team members; and, even less likely to reuse
objects stored in the repository, but developed elsewhere in the
corporation. This paper characterizes this problem in terms of three
familiarity biases: personal bias, project bias and time bias. In the
presence of these biases it is appropriate to deploy tools that support
the search for software reuse, so that they may be overcome. However,
the tools that are chosen or created for this purpose must adequately
treat the technical and cognitive fundamentals for individual
developers, and recognize the organizational and economic perspectives
of a firm that wishes to maximize the business value of its software
development activities. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14355 |
| Appears in Collections: | IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers
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