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Code Reuse Gets Easier
An effective code-reuse program requires both good code asset management tools and good policies.
Gary Anthes
 The deputy CIO at a major aerospace company had worked hard to get her company into software reuse. She hired reuse librarians, trained developers in reuse and object-oriented methods, and overhauled the company's software development methodology. Her goal was to have 60% of the code in new systems come from a library of reusable components within 12 months. But at the end of that time, the figure stood at just 6%.
"They were doing all the right things technically," says Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of Object Management Group Inc., a standards consortium in Needham, Mass. "But when I asked her how she measured the productivity of her developers, she said the same way they always had -- by lines of code generated. And making code available for reuse just takes away from writing more lines."
Diebold Inc. in North Canton, Ohio, is getting better results from its reuse program than the aerospace company did. Richard King, a senior software applications support engineer, says Diebold has seen a whopping fivefold improvement on the speed of development of new applications by using its "toolbox of reusable assets." Read more at: http://www.computerworld.com
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