Measuring Reuse Attributes In Object-Oriented Systems

摘要

We demonstrate that measuring reuse, in object-oriented systems is not as straight-forward as it might seem. On the basis of a small example application, we show that object-oriented reuse metrics tend to overestimate the "real" reuse in an application and that this problem can partly be overcome by carefully selecting an appropriate, definition of the. "size" attribute used in many proposed metrics. We also emphasize that it is necessary to distinguish between different flavors of "reuse" in order to achieve consistent measurements.