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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Predicting Fault-Proneness using OO Metrics: An Industrial Case Study
CSMR '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Assessing the relevance of identifier names in a legacy software system
CASCON '98 Proceedings of the 1998 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Software Reuse Research: Status and Future
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Software
Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics on Open Source Software for Fault Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using the Conceptual Cohesion of Classes for Fault Prediction in Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the Use of Domain Terms in Source Code
ICPC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Code Reuse in Open Source Software
Management Science
Reuse with Software Components - A Survey of Industrial State of Practice
ICSR '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Reuse: Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Learning a Metric for Code Readability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Improving Source Code Lexicon via Traceability and Information Retrieval
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Detecting software modularity violations
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
A Precise Method-Method Interaction-Based Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Classes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Reusing program modules is one of the most direct and useful ways to develop cost effective software, especially with the availability of huge amounts of open-source projects. Reuse saves cost, increases the speed of development and improves software reliability. The quality of popular open-source packages is good as shown by various empirical studies. However, the quality of less known packages and the large number of projects developed by programming enthusiasts is unknown. Reusing them may be the source of more problems rather than being a solution to a problem. In this paper, a conceptual model is proposed to measure the reusability of program modules. A balanced set of wellestablished metrics is used to compute the most significant factors of reusability and an empirical investigation is conducted to measure the reusability of the modules of randomly selected open-source Java projects. The results obtained are thoroughly analyzed to discover the real reusability potential of open-source program code together with suggestions on how to improve this potential.