Measurement of Business Rules Specified as Reusable Components

Exploratory Study of its Impact on the Functional Size of Software Projects

Trudel, S., Abran, A.

When reusable software elements are defined in the requirements phase, this raises a number of issues for the measurement of their functional size, when a reusable element implements a business rule or a business subprocess, for example. A case study is presented with project functional size measurement data to illustrate the impact of reuse on the resulting size and to determine criteria of reuse effectiveness and efficiency.