Business Value Assessment of Software Re-use

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1, University of Vienna (Institut fur Betriebswirtschaftslehre), course: Neuere Entwicklungen in eBusiness & eLogistics, language: English, abstract: Software re-use has been gaining importance during the recent years, as it offers companies a range of advantages and helps to retain a competitive advantage. This seminar paper focuses on the software re-use in particular, which is also a part of the service oriented architecture. After implementing software re-use, companies have to measure their success in the first place and later monitor if the desired company goals have been met. Metrics and models that are able to capture the business value of service re-use are the central part of this seminar paper. It concludes with presenting empirical studies that are focusing on software re-use measurement aspects, such as customer satisfaction, defect-density and stability of re-use and the intension to re-use from the software developers point of view.