Benefits of Software Evolution and Reuse

Reuse is still not a common practice in many companies and this is certainly due to a complex combination of elements ranging from the lack of technical opportunities to the features of the domain at hand, from the business objectives of the companies to the characteristics and skills of the management, and so many more. Nevertheless, even when all the conditions for a reuse introduction program are in place, the problem that all companies considering the introduction of reuse have to face is to assess the economical and financial impact and the actual benefits of reuse in terms of time and costs savings, of improvement in the quality of the produced software and of increased productivity.