Why reinventing the wheels? An empirical study on library reuse and re-implementation

• Main Authors: XU, Bowen, AN, Le, THUNG, Ferdian, KHOMH, Foutse, LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Code reuse; Code re-implementation; Library recommendation systems; Computer and Systems Architecture; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4500; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5503/viewcontent/WhyReinventingTheWheelsAnEmpir__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Nowadays, with the rapid growth of open source software (OSS), library reuse becomes more and more popular since a large amount of third- party libraries are available to download and reuse. A deeper understanding on why developers reuse a library (i.e., replacing self-implemented code with an exter...