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Reusability metrics and effect of reusability on testing of object oriented systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 37, Issue 5

Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/2347696.2347708

Published: 02 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Software reuse has become very popular in software development. There are several beneficial aspects of object oriented systems including code reuse, reusability and reusability of testing efforts. Reusable software components are the building blocks that can make a system able to respond quickly to change. This paper presents the hypothesis that the testing effort in object-oriented software can be inherited and reused similar to that of the coding effort. Therefore the testability and maintainability of the object-oriented software can be improved by adapting a reusability approach. In this paper some new metrics namely Reusability of a Class in a System (RCS), Average Degree of Reusability (AR), Specialize class to Base class Reusable Metric (SBRM) have been proposed.

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Index Terms

Reusability metrics and effect of reusability on testing of object oriented systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 37, Issue 5

September 2012

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/2347696

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AlOmar EPeruma AMkaouer MNewman COuni A(2024)How Is Software Reuse Discussed in Stack Overflow?The Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Systems Engineering Research10.1007/978-3-031-49179-5_24(357-372)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2024
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Alomar EWang TRaut VMkaouer MNewman COuni A(2022)Refactoring for reuse: an empirical studyInnovations in Systems and Software Engineering10.1007/s11334-021-00422-618:1(105-135)Online publication date: 15-Jan-2022
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Ahmed MIbrahim R(2014)Improving effectiveness of testing using reusability factor2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868451(1-5)Online publication date: Jun-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868451

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