What techniques do you use to maximise code reuse?

Question

Some years ago I was told about a study into code reuse. Apparently it was found that, on average, programmers have a 7 minute window when searching for code to reuse. If th

Answer 1

• Have a framework that is actively supported.

• Know the existing code base / make the other developers know the code base. If your group/company is large enough, have somebody who knows the code base and can be asked for guidance.

• Document, document, document. Undocumented code is useless for re-use because it takes way too long to understand its inner workings.

• Have good interfaces. Easy types, easy structures or classes. The more complicated something is, the less it will be used in another project.

• Optimize and debug reusable code. Developers who experience bugs in other people's code for the n-th time will begin to code already existing code anew.