Three empirical evaluations of a software reuse reference model

  • Authors:

  • Nader Nada;David C. Rine

  • Affiliations:

  • Software Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA E‐mail: nnada@cs.nps.navy.mil;Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030‐4444, USA E‐mail: drine@cs.gmu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The contribution of this paper is three empirical evaluations of a reference model for the practice of software reuse. Our research thesis is that software development based upon a software reuse reference model improves quality of products, productivity of processes and product time‐to‐market for many software development enterprises. The definition and investigation of such a model has been carried out using three steps. First, the reference model is developed based on existing software reuse concepts. Second, this reference model is empirically evaluated using three studies: one using a survey method, one using a case studies method, and one using a legacy studies method. Third, the impact of the reference model on software development productivity, quality, and time‐to‐market is empirically derived.