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Software Maintainability and Refactorings Prediction Based on Technical Debt Issues

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Series Informatica, 2023
Software maintainability is a crucial factor impacting cost, time and resource allocation for software development. Code refactorings greatly enhance code quality, readability, understandability and extensibility.
Liviu-Marian BERCIU, Vasilica MOLDOVAN
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Maintainability assessment for software by using a hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria analysis approach [PDF]

open access: yesManagement Science Letters, 2017
Maintainability plays a fundamental role for achieving success in software system and it is con-sidered as an important quality characteristics. Maintainability may be predicted efficiently by us-ing soft computing techniques as they provide good results.
Shivani Kundu, Kirti Tyagi
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Impact of Historical Software Metric Changes in Predicting Future Maintainability Trends in Open-Source Software Development

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
Software maintenance is one of the key stages in the software lifecycle and it includes a variety of activities that consume the significant portion of the costs of a software project. Previous research suggest that future software maintainability can be
Mitja Gradišnik   +2 more
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A Source-Code Maintainability Evaluation Model for Software Products

open access: yesScience, Engineering and Technology, 2023
The maintainability index (MI) has been proposed to calculate a single number which expresses the maintainability of a system. This article presents a model for evaluating the maintainability of software products.
Hayatou Oumarou, Kolyang
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Test‐driven development, engagement in activity, and maintainability: An empirical study

open access: yesIET Software, 2023
The software engineering community aims to achieve and maintain high‐efficient software engineering practical activities. One of the techniques used for this purpose is Test‐Driven Development (TDD), which is a cyclic and test‐centered development method
Wei Ren, Stephen Barrett
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Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used.
Bogner, Justus   +3 more
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Measuring Impact of Dependency Injection on Software Maintainability

open access: yesComputers, 2022
Dependency injection (DI) is generally known to improve maintainability by keeping application classes separate from the library. Particularly within the Java environment, there are many applications using the principles of DI with the aim to improve ...
Peter Sun   +3 more
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Empirical Studies on Software Product Maintainability Prediction: A Systematic Mapping and Review [PDF]

open access: yese-Informatica Software Engineering Journal, 2019
Background: Software product maintainability prediction (SPMP) is an important task to control software maintenance activity, and many SPMP techniques for improving software maintainability have been proposed.
Sara Elmidaoui   +3 more
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Surveying the factors that influence maintainability: research design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes in software is a major cost driver.
Hordijk, Wiebe, Wieringa, Roel
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rust-code-analysis: A Rust library to analyze and extract maintainability information from source codes

open access: yesSoftwareX, 2020
The literature proposes many software metrics for evaluating the source code non-functional properties, such as its complexity and maintainability. The literature also proposes several tools to compute those properties on source codes developed with many
Luca Ardito   +6 more
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