Introduction

Can you afford to reinvent the wheel? I’m sure most of you will say a big NO. Similarly, in software development, it’s not very common to build a piece of software from scratch unless you are building something which was not done by anyone before you in the world. Typically, a development team gets help from a platform like GitHub or gets help from other similar projects running within your organization. They copy the base code (let’s call it the initial codebase) from others and start developing on top of that. This is re-using the wheel.

This is one way of looking at reusability since they have reused someone else’s code. When we talk about improving the re-usability of software assets (code, libraries, etc.) within your organization then it inherits a few inefficiencies. Especially when you do not have a mechanism of giving back.

Source: DZone