TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing Software Reuse Economics
T2 - An Integrated ROI-based Model
AU - Mili, Ali
AU - Chmiel, Senta Fowler
AU - Gottumukkala, Ravi
AU - Zhang, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by NASA IV&V Laboratory in Fairmont, WV. The authors are grateful to C. Calhoun and D. McDonough, NASA, and to J. Estep, WVHTF, for their interest and support.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Several cost models have been proposed in the past for estimating, predicting, and analyzing the costs of software reuse. In this paper we propose an integrated ROI-based cost model which attempts to encompass existing models. Our approach is to analyze existing models, identify their dimensions of variance, classify the models along these dimensions, then provide an integrated cost model that makes explicit provisions for these dimensions of variance. In this paper, we also discuss in what sense our model encompasses existing models, present a prototype that supports the cost model, and illustrate the model with a sample example.
AB - Several cost models have been proposed in the past for estimating, predicting, and analyzing the costs of software reuse. In this paper we propose an integrated ROI-based cost model which attempts to encompass existing models. Our approach is to analyze existing models, identify their dimensions of variance, classify the models along these dimensions, then provide an integrated cost model that makes explicit provisions for these dimensions of variance. In this paper, we also discuss in what sense our model encompasses existing models, present a prototype that supports the cost model, and illustrate the model with a sample example.
KW - Application engineering
KW - COCOMO
KW - Component engineering
KW - Domain engineering
KW - Return on investment
KW - Software cost estimation
KW - Software reuse
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1012599304672
DO - 10.1023/A:1012599304672
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035565426
SN - 1022-7091
VL - 11
SP - 175
EP - 218
JO - Annals of Software Engineering
JF - Annals of Software Engineering
IS - 1
ER -