A metrics-based approach to the automated identification of object-oriented reusable software components
Letha Hughes Etzkorn · 1998
Software reuse has been a long term goal of software developers. This goal has been rather elusive, but the widespread use of the object-oriented paradigm and other innovations in software development paradigms have led to renewed interest in this topic. This dissertation describes a new approach for the identification of reusable object-oriented legacy software components. The approach is concept-driven, knowledge-based and tool-assisted and uses heuristics to aid in the natural language understanding of comments and identifiers in object-oriented code. The approach uses a reusability quality factors hierarchy, where low-level object-oriented metrics are used to predict reusability quality factors. The