Software reuse is widely recognized as an effective way of increasing the quality of software
systems whilst lowering the effort and time involved in their development. Although most of …

Software experts agree: the most difficult aspect of building software is not coding; it is the
decisions the designer makes in the early stages. Those decisions live with the system for …

Despite its well-recognized benefits, software reuse has not met its expected success due to
technical, cognitive, and social difficulties. We have systematically analyzed the reuse …

In this paper, we show how the maturation of several technologies for product-line analysis
and component design, implementation and customization provides an interesting basis for …

The extensive literature on reuse in software engineering has focused on technical and
organizational factors, largely ignoring cognitive characteristics of individual developers …

CONTEXT: Software Reuse has always been an important area amongst software
companies in order to increase their productivity and the quality of their products, but code …

Several cost models have been proposed in the past for estimating, predicting, and
analyzing the costs of software reuse. In this paper we analyze existing models, explain their …

Software reuse is a critical aspect for companies interested in the improvement of software
development quality and productivity, and in costs reduction. However, achieving it is a …

A continuing challenge for software designers is to develop efficient and cost-effective
software implementations. Many see software reuse as a potential solution; however, the …

It is widely believed and empirically proven that component reuse improves both the quality
and productivity of software development. Before software components are reused …