Software reuse: Metrics and models

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 415-435

  Frakes, William ^a   Terry, Carol ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INCODE Corporation ^*

^c Computer Science Department ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Economics; Maturity assessment; Measurement; Models; Object oriented; Performance; Productivity; Quality; Reusability; Reusability assessment; Reuse; Reuse level; Reuse library metrics; Software; Software reuse failure modes model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000467460     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/234528.234531     Document Type: Article

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