Cost Estimation Model For Reuse Based Software Products

A fundamental task when employing software reuse is evaluating its impacts by measuring the relation of reused and developed software, the cost for obtaining reuse and the cost avoided by reusing software during development and maintenance. Different reuse related metrics exist in the literature, varying from strictly code-based metrics, aiming to measure the amount of code reused in a product, to more elaborate cost-based metrics and models, aiming to measure the costs involved in reuse programs and to evaluate the impacts of reuse in software development. The goal of this work is to evaluate the current state of the art on the reuse metrics area, with a special emphasis on reuse cost metrics and propose an estimation model for development cost by surveying hundred software companies. Index Terms—Software Reuse, Reuse Survey, Reuse metrics, Reuse cost.

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