Quality, productivity and economic benefits of software reuse: A review of industrial studies

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 471-516

  Mohagheghi, Parastoo ^a,b   Conradi, Reidar ^b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evidence; Productivity; Quality; Review; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRODUCTIVITY;

ECONOMIC BENEFITS; EVIDENCE; SYSTEMATIC SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 34748858031     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-007-9040-x     Document Type: Article

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