Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems
Yunwen Ye, Gerhard Fischer, Brent N. Reeves · 2000
Although software reuse can improve both the quality and productivity of software development, it will not do so until software developers stop believing that it is not worth their effort to find a component matching their current problem. In addition, if the developers do not anticipate the existence of a given component, they will not even make an effort to find it in the first place.