Determinants of Service Reusability

  • Authors:

  • George Feuerlicht;Amalka Wijayaweera

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway Sydney NSW 2007 Australia, jiri@it.uts.edu.au;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway Sydney NSW 2007 Australia, jiri@it.uts.edu.au

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the sixth SoMeT_07
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Software reuse is regarded is as a key software development objective leading to reduction of costs associated with software development and maintenance. However, there is mounting evidence that software reuse is difficult to achieve in practice, and that software development approaches such as component-based development, and more recently service-oriented computing have failed to achieve anticipated levels of reuse. In this paper we identify the determinants of service reusability and argue that the design of services plays an important role in achieving high levels of reuse. We examine the relationship between service granularity and reuse and note that extensive use of coarse grained, document-centric services by SOA practitioners makes achieving reuse particularly challenging.