DocumentCode
1125147
Title
Economics of software reuse
Author
Jones, Capers
Author_Institution
Software Productivity Res. Inc., Burlington, MA, USA
Volume
27
Issue
7
fYear
1994
fDate
7/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
106
Lastpage
107
Abstract
The author discusses the type of software that can and should be reused. At least 10 different software artifacts lend themselves to reusability. Breaking down the cost of manually producing these 10 artifacts lets us create a preliminary analysis of the return on investment (ROI) of reusing them, with an admittedly large margin of error. He discusses the barriers to full software reusability.<>
Keywords
software cost estimation; software reusability; economics; return on investment; software artifacts; software cost; software reuse; Boats; Buildings; Citation analysis; Cost function; Industrial economics; Investments; Materials testing; Product design; Software reusability; Standards development;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/2.299437
Filename
299437
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