Software reuse measurement process

To monitor software reuse we created a transaction file. In this file we capture different types of activities that were performed by the user during their interaction with the system.

This will allow the software reuse group to analyze these captured information, and to conclude about the software reusability of the stored entities. The following information will be captured in this transaction file:

user name, and user ID
In case of keyword search, what are the keyword that were typed.
In case of attribute search what type of attribute were used.
After successful search, what type of entities were looked at in detail (displaying detail screen).

These information will be useful in two ways:

First, it will help us to identify what are the mostly reused entities, and what is the scope of interest and the need in our organization.

Second, we could monitor our keywords and update our list of keywords by observing the user input, and what type of related keyword they had typed to retrieve specific entity.

Third, It will help us to build a list of the thesaurus table. We will relate what the user typed with the list of existing keywords.