An empirical investigation of software reuse benefits in a large telecom product

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Mohagheghi, Parastoo ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fault density; Product family; Risks; Software reuse; Standardization

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LABELING; LABELS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDIZATION;

CASE STUDIES; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES; QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOFTWARE RE-USE; TELECOM (CO);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 46449118849     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1363102.1363104     Document Type: Article

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