The current practices of software reusability approaches in Malaysia

Author

Ahmaro, Ibraheem Y. Y. ; Bin Mohd Yusoff, Mohd Zaliman ; Mohd Abualkishik, Abdallah

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Eng., Univ. Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kajang, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

23-24 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

176

Abstract

Software reusability refers to the expected reuse potential of a software assets and module can be adapted in more than one software system. It is an effective method to enhance the software productivity and quality. Despite the importance of software reusability, very few study has been carried out in Malaysian IT industry. Hence, this study is aimed to identify the adopted software reusability approaches in the Malaysian IT industry. Quantitative analysis method was used by collecting data through online questionnaire, distributed to 183 IT industry players in Malaysia. Results from this study indicated that the main software reusability approaches adopted by Malaysian IT industry are design patterns, component-based development, application frameworks, COTS Integration and Service-oriented Systems.

Keywords

DP industry; object-oriented programming; software quality; software reusability; COTS integration; Malaysian IT industry; application frameworks; component-based development; design patterns; quantitative analysis method; service-oriented systems; software assets; software productivity enhancement; software quality enhancement; software reusability approaches; Companies; Industries; Information technology; Productivity; Software engineering; Software reusability; COTS Integration; Service-oriented Systems; application frameworks; component-based development; design patterns; software reusability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference (MySEC), 2014 8th Malaysian

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MySec.2014.6986009

Filename

6986009