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Evaluating Human-Assessed Software Maintainability Metrics

verfasst von : Celia Chen, Reem Alfayez, Kamonphop Srisopha, Lin Shi, Barry Boehm

Erschienen in: Software Engineering and Methodology for Emerging Domains

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Being highly maintainable is the key to reduce approximately 75% of most systems’ life cycle costs. Software maintainability is defined as the ease with which a software system or a component can be modified, to correct faults, improve performance or other attributes, or adapt to a changed environment. There exist metrics that can help developers measure and analyze the maintainability level of a project objectively. Most of these metrics involve automated analysis of the code. In this paper, we evaluate the software maintainability versus a set of human-evaluation factors used in the Constructive Cost Model II (COCOMO II) Software Understandability (SU) metric, through conducting a controlled experiment on humans assessing SU and performing change-request modifications on open source software (OSS) projects.

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Titel: Evaluating Human-Assessed Software Maintainability Metrics
verfasst von: Celia Chen
Reem Alfayez
Kamonphop Srisopha
Lin Shi
Barry Boehm
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Buch: Software Engineering and Methodology for Emerging Domains
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-3481-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-3482-4

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3482-4_9

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