Human Factors and Software Reuse: The Manager's Impact

Lewis, John A. and Henry, Sallie M. and Kafura, Dennis G. and Schulman, Robert S. (1992) Human Factors and Software Reuse: The Manager's Impact. Technical Report TR-92-13, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Abstract

This paper describes the results of a controlled experiment designed to evaluate the impact of human factors on software reuse. The experiment concludes that (1) software reuse promotes higher productivity than no reuse, (2) reuse resulting from both moderate and strong encouragement promote higher productivity than no reuse, and (3) while strong managerial encouragement did not create a significant difference in productivity, it does tend to promote improper reuse activities.