Capability and maturity model for Reuse: A comparative study

Abstract

For any organization, improving the business performance means perfecting their software development. Systematic reuse offers great potential of significant gains for an organization, by reducing costs and efforts, and accelerating the Time to Market of software products [1]. Cloud based development is a challenging task for several software organizations, especially for organizations that are in need of development with reusability. Organizations need to define a strategy for adopting a systematic reuse, and for defining a reuse process, but they do not know how to address reuse issues or they are not aware of the power that different levels of reuse can provide them. There are many existing reuse models. Each organization interested in adopting reuse needs to identify what each model can offer, and needs to be able to recognize which one is the most suitable for its context. The aim of this paper is to provide some information about the different Reuse best practices and Models, and to present a comparative study based on criteria that helps choosing the appropriate reuse maturity model for an organization.