TITLE:
Quantifying Reusability of Object Oriented Design: A Testability Perspective
AUTHORS:
Mahfuzul Huda, Yagya Dutt Sharma Arya, Mahmoodul Hasan Khan
KEYWORDS:
Reusability, Testability, Object Oriented Design, Design Metrics, Object Oriented Software, Software Quality Model, Software Testing, Effort
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
14,
2015
ABSTRACT: The quality factor of class diagram is
critical because it has a significant influence on overall quality of the
product, delivered finally. Testability analysis, when done early in the
software creation process, is a criterion of critical importance to software
quality. Reusability is an important quality factor to testability. Its early
measurement in object oriented software especially at design phase, allows a
design to be reapplied to a new problem without much extra effort. This
research paper proposes a research framework for quantification process and
does an extensive review on reusability of object oriented software. A metrics
based model “Reusability Quantification of Object Oriented Design” has been
proposed by establishing the relationship among design properties and
reusability and justifying the correlation with the help of statistical
measures. Also, “Reusability Quantification Model” is empirically validated and
contextual significance of the study shows the high correlation for model acceptance.
This research paper facilitates to software developers and designer, the
inclusion of reusability quantification model to access and quantify software
reusability for quality product.