Software Reusability Metrics

Software Reusability Metrics

[Edward Berard]

I am conducting some research into the area of software reusability metrics.
Specifically, I am interested in any metric which can be used on a piece
of Ada source code to provide some estimate of that code's potential for reuse.
While I strongly suspect that such metrics, if they do exist, must be
used with a great deal of caution, I would be interested in hearing about
any such metrics.

My chief interest is technology that is Ada specific. However, I would
also like to hear about software reusability metrics in general, e.g.:

   1. Metrics which determine the degree of reuse in an application,

   2. Metrics which estimate cost savings based on reuse,

   3. Actual case studies which verify or discredit such metrics.

I would appreciate any pointers, war stories, opinions, case histories, etc.
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