Title :
A maintainability model for industrial software systems using design level metrics
Author :
Muthanna, S. ; Kontogiannis, K. ; Ponnambalam, K. ; Stacey, B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Software maintenance is a time consuming and expensive phase of a software product´s life-cycle. The paper investigates the use of software design metrics to statistically estimate the maintainability of large software systems, and to identify error prone modules. A methodology for assessing, evaluating and, selecting software metrics for predicting software maintainability is presented. In addition, a linear prediction model based on a minimal set of design level software metrics is proposed. The model is evaluated by applying it to industrial software systems
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software maintenance; software metrics; software quality; design level metrics; error prone modules; industrial software systems; large software systems; linear prediction model; maintainability estimation; maintainability model; software design metrics; software maintainability; software maintenance; software metrics; software product life-cycle; Computer industry; Design engineering; Maintenance engineering; Predictive models; Seals; Software design; Software maintenance; Software metrics; Software quality; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0881-2
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.2000.891476
