Reusability metrics and effect of reusability on testing of object oriented systems

  • Authors:
  • Sanjeev Patwa;Anil Kumar Malviya

  • Affiliations:
  • FASC, MITS (Deemed University), Lakshmangarh,Sikar, Raj., India;Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, KNIT, Sultanpur, U.P., India

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Software reuse has become very popular in software development. There are several beneficial aspects of object oriented systems including code reuse, reusability and reusability of testing efforts. Reusable software components are the building blocks that can make a system able to respond quickly to change. This paper presents the hypothesis that the testing effort in object-oriented software can be inherited and reused similar to that of the coding effort. Therefore the testability and maintainability of the object-oriented software can be improved by adapting a reusability approach. In this paper some new metrics namely Reusability of a Class in a System (RCS), Average Degree of Reusability (AR), Specialize class to Base class Reusable Metric (SBRM) have been proposed.