Title :
Ease of Reuse: An Empirical Comparison of Components and Objects
Author :
Sinha, A.P. ; Jain, Himanshu
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents an empirical study that compares IT professionals´ perceptions about the ease of reuse in modeling business systems from component versus object libraries. Results indicate that they perceive components to be much easier to reuse than objects.
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; software reusability; IT professional perception; business system modeling; component library; information technology professional; object library; software reusability; Decision support systems; Libraries; Object oriented programming; Software development; Software reusability; Decision support systems; Libraries; Object oriented programming; Software development; Software reusability; class library; component library; component-based development; software reuse; usability;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2012.131
