A framework of code reuse in open source software

Abstract

Recently, adopting open source software into software development has become a growing trend in the IT software industry. Unlike the general commercial software, open source software leverages the capability of the communities to improve the quality, but also reduce the cost of software development. This paper aims at analyzing the influence factors of applying open source software in software reuse. We begin by proposing our framework for enhancing the open source software usage and then set out to determine the influence factors of software reuse. A reuse system based on our proposed framework is implemented. For the assessment, a questionnaire survey and analysis of 20 software projects are carried out to evaluate our approach. There are 50 experienced corresponding project managers and developers participating in our experiments. The assessment shows that reuse factors of projects managers and developers influence the OSS reuse.