Strategies for software reuse: A principal component analysis of reuse practices

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 825-837

  Rothenberger, Marcus A ^a   Dooley, Kevin J ^b   Kulkarni, Uday R ^b   Nada, Nader ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Faculty (Educational Technology) Sharjah Women's College   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Best practices; Quality; Reusability; Reuse classification scheme; Reuse success; Software process improvement; Systematic software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

REUSE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SYSTEMATIC SOFTWARE REUSE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 0142134956     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1232287     Document Type: Article

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