A measurement framework for organizational software reuse influence factors
James Baldo, David C. Rine · 1998
The organizational objective of achieving enterprise-wide software reuse has been an elusive goal for many organizations. Many promising software reuse technology based approaches that have been successfully demonstrated on pilot projects have failed to achieve success within an organization's software development environment. These observations indicate that an organization's successful adoption, utilization, and management of software reuse is influenced by more than just technical attributes. The effects of attributes such as organizational culture and structure have been conjectured as having significant impact on an organization's potential to successfully adopt, utilize, and manage software reuse activities. Therefore, the measurement of organizational software reuse is a manifestation of both technical and organizational attributes. Yet there does not exist a validate set of organizational software reuse attributes. This dissertation identified a set of software reuse organizational attributes and developed a framework to validate these attributes. The framework was used to test hypotheses on software reuse organizational attributes (i.e., independent variables) for their effects on organizational software reuse adoption, utilization, and management (i.e., dependent variables). The framework assessed organizational data that was collected from the open literature and World Wide Web sources on past organizational software reuse programs for validating the organizational software reuse attributes under study.