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The problem researched is that there presently does not exist a set of success factors which are common across organizations and have some predictability relationship to software reuse. For completeness, this research also investigated possible predictive relationships between software reuse and both productivity and quality. A 1995 survey was conducted to determine the state-of-the-practice. The data from the survey was statistically analyzed to evaluate the relationships among reuse capability, productivity, quality, and the individual software reuse success factors. The results of the analysis showed some of the success factors to have a predictive relationship to software reuse capability. Software reuse capability also had a predictive relationship to productivity and quality. Based on the research results, the leading indicators of software reuse capability are: product-line approach, architecture which standardizes interfaces and data formats, common software architecture across the product-line, design for manufacturing approach, domain engineering, management which understands reuse issues, software reuse advocate(s) in senior management, state-of-the-art tools and methods, precedence of reusing high level software artifacts such as requirements and design versus just code reuse, and trace end-user requirements to the components (systems, subsystems, and/or software modules) which support them.Keywords and Phrases. software reuse, management of software reuse, software reuse success factors, software reuse empirical studies, software reuse programs and initiatives.

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