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Determination of Maintainability Index for Object Oriented Systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943371.1943383

Published: 05 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In Object Oriented System, the quality of software depends significantly on the decision taken at early phases of the development. As per available artefact, quality of the class description is very crucial for system development. Maintenance is to repair defects in software, to adapt the software to different operational environments and to add or modify the functionality of the system. In Object Oriented Systems, maintainability factor needs more aspects to explore. We have proposed Maintainability Index using Package Metrics. We performed empirical evaluation using three case studies.

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Index Terms

Determination of Maintainability Index for Object Oriented Systems
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
    2. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 2

March 2011

116 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1943371

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Ardito LBarbato LCoppola RValsesia M(2021)Evaluation of Rust code verbosity, understandability and complexityPeerJ Computer Science10.7717/peerj-cs.4067(e406)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2021
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Malhotra RLata K(2020)A systematic literature review on empirical studies towards prediction of software maintainabilitySoft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications10.1007/s00500-020-05005-424:21(16655-16677)Online publication date: 28-May-2020
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Orenyi BBasri SJung L(2012)Object-Oriented Software Maintainability Measurement in the Past DecadeProceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies10.1109/ACSAT.2012.54(257-262)Online publication date: 26-Nov-2012
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