A Performance Measure for Software Reuse Projects
针对传统生产率度量在软件复用环境下不全面的问题，提出了一个包含新代码生产率、复用代码生产率、复用决策质量和复用相对价值四个维度的新绩效度量，并用实例验证了可行性。
The efficient development of software has become a critical factor to the success of many organizations. Significant competitive advantage can be realized by reducing the time to complete software development, while maintaining or improving quality levels. Project management activities, including the measurement of performance at the level of the project, can help the organization to both control projects and learn from experience. Traditionally, the productivity of a software development project has been measured as the complexity of code produced per unit of labor involved. An increasing number of organizations, however, are adopting the practice of software reuse, and under such conditions, such a traditional measure of productivity does not fully capture all the relevant elements of the reuse‐driven development environment. This research develops a new performance measure that considers four major components of performance: productivity associated with development of new code, productivity associated with the reuse of previously written code, quality of the reuse decision, and relative value of reuse to the company. To illustrate the feasibility of the measure, a real‐world productivity assessment is presented for an example company, and related implementation issues are discussed.