Modeling of Reusability of Object Oriented Software System

Automatic reusability appraisal is helpful in evaluating the quality of developed or developing reusable software components and in identification of reusable components from existing legacy systems; that can save cost of developing the software from scratch. But the issue of how to identify reusable components from existing systems has remained relatively unexplored. In this research work, structural attributes of software components are explored using software metrics and quality of the software is inferred by different Neural Network based approaches, taking the metric values as input. The calculated reusability value enables to identify a good quality code automatically. It is found that the reusability value determined is close to the manual analysis used to be performed by the programmers or repository managers. So, the developed system can be used to enhance the productivity and quality of software development.

Authors:

• Parvinder S. Sandhu
• Harpreet Kaur
• Amanpreet Singh

Keywords:

• Neural Network
• Software Reusability
• Software Metric
• Accuracy
• MAE
• RMSE.

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