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Construction and testing of polynomials predicting software maintainability
Paul W. Oman,Jack Hagemeister +1 more
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The maintainability assessment polynomials presented here are accurate models of the test data on which they were constructed and are automated working models that can be used to quickly and easily predict software maintainability.About:
This article is published in Journal of Systems and Software.The article was published on 1994-03-01. It has received 176 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maintainability & Software construction.read more
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Using metrics to evaluate software system maintainability
TL;DR: Software complexity metrics rarely measure the "inherent complexity" embedded in software systems, but they do a very good job of comparing the relative complexity of one portion of a system with another.
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Little languages: little maintenance
Arie van Deursen,Paul Klint +1 more
TL;DR: The role of DSLs in software maintenance, the dangers introduced by using them, and techniques for controlling the risks involved are discussed.
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A Practical Model for Measuring Maintainability
TL;DR: A new maintainability model is sketched that alleviates most of the problems with the MI, and the experiences with using such as system for IT management consultancy activities are discussed.
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A systematic review of software maintainability prediction and metrics
TL;DR: There is little evidence on the effectiveness of software maintainability prediction techniques and models, according to a systematic review of studies targeted at the software quality attribute of maintainability.
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Faults in linux: ten years later
TL;DR: It is found that Linux has more than doubled in size during this period, but that the number of faults per line of code has been decreasing, and even though drivers still accounts for a large part of the kernel code and contains the most faults, its fault rate is now below that of other directories, such as arch (HAL) and fs (file systems).
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Metrics for assessing a software system's maintainability
P. Oman,J. Hagemeister +1 more
TL;DR: The authors define metrics for measuring the maintainability of a target software system and discuss how those metrics can be combined into a single index of maintainability.
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Using software metrics to allocate testing resources
TL;DR: The most uniform allocation of resources per error is obtained through the use of software complexity metrics, however, the allocation was not perfect in any of the strategies considered, suggesting that additional work must be performed to arrive at better approaches to allocation.
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A model based on software quality factors which predicts maintainability
TL;DR: The authors have developed a model which uses several software quality metrics as parameters to predict maintenance activity and three classifications of metrics that are used to measure the quality of source code are given.
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Constructing and testing software maintainability assessment models
TL;DR: This paper investigates the use of metrics in assessingSoftware maintainability by presenting and comparing seven software maintainability assessment models and finding very high correlations between the automated assessment techniques and the subjective expert evaluations.