Re: Measuring OO Reuse

as to this problem:

> b. NDepend can tell me when one method depends on another method, but
> if we're binding to an abstraction, how can I tell which implementation
> is actually being reused?

If you bind to an abstraction, then you are reusing all components that can
make use of that abstraction independently of their implementations.

In other words, if you have an app that uses an interface and uses an
abstract factory to create the instance of the object, then you get reuse of
all modules that bind to that interface as long as they use the factory to
create instances, for each new concrete implementation of the interface.

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