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Challenges of Adopting Software Reuse: Initial Results

Authors:
Sajjad Mahmood
Ali Al Zayer

Keywords: systematic software reuse; challenges and barrier; systematic literature review; empirical studies.

Abstract:
A significant number of software development organizations have started adopting software reuse in order to facilitate achieving quality software, faster and at a lower cost. Software reuse helps organizations to leverage the benefits of systematic reuse with respect to architecture, design, source code and testing artifacts. One of the major issues is that many organizations endorse software reuse prior to understating and testing their readiness for the reuse based development processes. The objective of this paper is to identify challenges associated with software reuse in an organization. We have performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) by applying customized search strings derived from our research question. We have identified challenges, such as domain analysis and modeling, lack of reuse skills and knowledge, lack of management support, high reuse cost and lack of component repositories as key challenges in software reuse. Our ultimate aim is to develop a model in order to measure organizations’ readiness for software reuse activities.

Pages: 85 to 89

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014