Investigation of the effects of reuse on software quality inan industrial setting

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Deniz, Berkhan
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Software reuse is a powerful tool in order to reduce development and maintenance time and cost. Any software life cycle product can be reused, not only fragments of source code. A high degree of reuse correlates with a low defect density. In the literature, many theoretical and empirical researches have examined the relationship of software reuse and quality. In this thesis, the effects of reuse on software quality are investigated in an industrial setting. Throughout this study, we worked with Turkey’s leading defense industry company: Aselsan’s software engineering department. We aimed to explore their real-life software projects and interpret reuse and quality relations for their projects. With this intention, we defined four different hypotheses to determine reuse and quality relations; and in order to confirm these hypotheses; we designed three separate case studies. In these case studies, we collected and calculated reuse and quality metrics i.e. Object-oriented quality metrics, reuse rates and performance measures of individual modules, fault-proneness of software components, and productivity rates of different products. Finally, by analyzing these measurements, we developed suggestions to further benefit from reuse in Aselsan through systematic improvements to the reuse infrastructure and process. Similar case studies have been reported in the literature, however, in Turkey, there are not many case studies using real-life project data, particularly in the defense industry.
Software reengineering., Software refactoring., Computer software, Computer software
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615318/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22416
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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B. Deniz, “Investigation of the effects of reuse on software quality inan industrial setting,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.
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