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.... and legal issues [4,5,45 47] It has been argued that an important characteristic of the infrastructure supporting reuse is the existence of a marketplace that both provides access to reuse producers and consumers as well as provides a mechanism to transfer benefits between the parties [11,33,34,48]. Many organizations have implemented systematic reuse programs [21] which have resulted in in house libraries of reusable components. The increased commercial offering of embeddable software components, standardization of basic software environments (e.g. MS Windows, UNIX) and popularization ....

T. B. Bollinger and S. L. Pfleeger, Economics of Reuse: issues and alternatives, Information and Software Technology, vol. 32, 10. pp. 643-652, 1991.

....kinds of) reuse directly in the code; thus, it may be possible to find an indirect measure of the benefits of software (code) reuse directly in the code. Measures derivable directly from the code are internal measures. Several such measures of software reuse have been proposed in the literature [8, 14, 3, 10, 13]. This paper is concerned with the evaluation of how well various indirect, internal measures of software reuse actually measure the relevant external process attribute: reuse benefit. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. First, following the lead of Weyuker [17] in the field of ....

....and do not appear to admit of any immediate solutions. Now, we survey several related research efforts that deal with the measurement of reuse and discuss their relationship to the properties laid out in this section. 3 Analytic Evaluation of Reuse Metrics There are many models and metrics [2, 4, 10, 9, 3, 14] in the literature that try to evaluate the degree of reuse in a software system. Most of these measures are concerned with estimating the actual 5 The precise definition slight modification will vary with the circumstances. 6 financial benefits due to reuse. Bieman suggests a range of ....

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T. Bollinger and S Pfleeger. Economics of reuse: issues and alternatives. Information and Software Technology, 32(10):643--652, 1990.

....kinds of) reuse directly in the code; thus, it may be possible to find an indirect measure of the benefits of software (code) reuse directly in the code. Measures derivable directly from the code are internal measures. Several such measures of software reuse have been proposed in the literature [2, 4, 9, 11, 14]. This paper is concerned with the evaluation of how well various indirect, internal measures of software reuse actually measure the relevant external process attribute: reuse benefit. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. First, following the lead of Weyuker [16] in the field of ....

....measures of reuse benefit turn out to be not strictly consistent with one or more of the properties listed above; in fact, as we shall see below, there are some inherent difficulties in any approach to measuring reuse. 3 Analytic Evaluation of Reuse Metrics There are many models and metrics [3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14] in the literature that try to evaluate the degree of reuse in a software system. Most of these measures are concerned with estimating the actual financial benefits due to reuse. Bieman [3] suggests a range of measures of various reuse occurrences in object oriented software. Our theoretical ....

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T. Bollinger and S Pfleeger. Economics of reuse: issues and alternatives. Information and Software Technology, 32(10):643--652, 1990.

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