Software reuse in an industrial setting: a case study

A summary of an ongoing case study of software reuse being carried out by the authors in cooperation with Sperry Marine Incorporated is presented. The goals of the study are to analyze the problems that limit reuse and to seek solutions suitable for industrial application. To help determine its suitability for use within Sperry Marine, an experimental evaluation of object-oriented development was performed that focused on a specific subsystem domain found in several of Sperry Marine´s commercial software products. A reuse library populated with classes written in C++ was prepared, and from this library simple versions of two representative subsystems were built. Measurement of the resulting software showed a very high level of reuse