@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6196, title = {DRE - A Quality Metric for Component based Software Products}, author = {K. S. Jasmine and R. Vasantha}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {The overriding goal of software engineering is to provide a high quality system, application or a product. To achieve this goal, software engineers must apply effective methods coupled with modern tools within the context of a mature software process [2]. In addition, it is also must to assure that high quality is realized. Although many quality measures can be collected at the project levels, the important measures are errors and defects. Deriving a quality measure for reusable components has proven to be challenging task now a days. The results obtained from the study are based on the empirical evidence of reuse practices, as emerged from the analysis of industrial projects. Both large and small companies, working in a variety of business domains, and using object-oriented and procedural development approaches contributed towards this study. This paper proposes a quality metric that provides benefit at both project and process level, namely defect removal efficiency (DRE).}, journal = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering}, volume = {1}, number = {10}, year = {2007}, pages = {2951 - 2954}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6196}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/10}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 10, 2007}, }