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An Empirical Study of the Object-Oriented Paradigm and Software Reuse

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dc.contributor.authorLewis, John A.en
dc.contributor.authorHenry, Sallie M.en
dc.contributor.authorKafura, Dennis G.en
dc.contributor.authorSchulman, Robert S.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-19T14:35:57Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-19T14:35:57Zen
dc.date.issued1991en
dc.description.abstractLittle or no empirical validation exists for many of software engineering's basic assumptions. While some of these assumptions are intuitive, the need for scientific experimentation remains clear. Several assumptions are made about the factors affecting software reuse, and in particular, the role of the object-oriented paradigm. This paper describes the preliminary results of a controlled experiment designed to evaluate the impact of the object-oriented paradigm on software reuse. The experiment concludes that (1) the object-oriented paradigm substantially improves productivity, although a significant part of this improvement is due to the effect of reuse, (2) reuse without regard to language paradigm improves productivity, (3) language differences are far more important when programmers reuse than when they do not, and (4) the object-oriented paradigm has a particular affinity to the reuse process.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000253/en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000253/01/TR-91-06.pdfen
dc.identifier.trnumberTR-91-06en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/19698en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofHistorical Collection(Till Dec 2001)en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleAn Empirical Study of the Object-Oriented Paradigm and Software Reuseen
dc.typeTechnical reporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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