An Evolution of Cost Productive Method for Software Reuse

Several companies are planning to finance or have already financed money, time and resources in software reuse. Along this investment software companies expect to improve their completeness in the market through reduction of cost and effort, increase their productivity and improvement in the quality and reliability in the software products development. Software reuse is considered as a key to a successful software development because of its potential to reduce the time to market, increase and reduce costs. This increase in demand made the software organization to envision the use of software recyclable resources which can also help in solving repeated problems. Till now, software reuse is confined to reuse of source code in the name of code searching. Now a day, software organizations are extending the concept to other life cycle objects as they realize that the reuse of source code alone does not save money. In this thesis work the main focus is placed on developing a formula on the occurrence of true effort while developing a software project. In this work effort and cost has been calculated with reusable components of requirement analysis and specification phase, design phase, coding phase and testing phase. Because there is simple relationship between the development cost and the price charged from the customer and this is mainly because of the influence of economic, political and business consideration. We compare this work with Cocomo 81 and Cocomo Estimator dataset is taken as a source data for analysing the behaviour and pattern of effort associated with software development