Title :
A controlled experiment to evaluate maintainability of object-oriented software
Author :
Henry, Sallie M. ; Humphrey, Matthew
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe an experiment which compares the maintainability of two functionally equivalent systems in order to explore the claim that systems developed with object-oriented languages are more easily maintained than those programmed with procedural languages. Supporting evidence was found that programmers produce more maintainable code with an object-oriented language than with a standard procedural language
Keywords :
object-oriented programming; software maintenance; maintainability; object-oriented languages; object-oriented software; procedural languages; Code standards; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Engineering management; Internet; Object oriented programming; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software packages; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 1990, Proceedings., Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2091-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.1990.131370
