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Software Maintainability: Perceptions of EDP Professionals
MIS Quarterly, 1988Software maintenance continues to be one of the most complex problems facing much of the software industry. This study examines EDP professionals’ perceptions of what makes software maintainable. Perceptions were assessed through a series of factor analyses on the data collected from a survey of 149 professionals from 20 organizations of varying sizes.
Kim, Chai, Westin, S.
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Maintaining enterprise software applications
Communications of the ACM, 2005The problem of maintaining integrated applications is by no means a simple one and requires an interdisciplinary approach.
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Static software metrics for reliability and maintainability
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Technical Debt, 2018This paper identifies a small, essential set of static software code metrics linked to the software product quality characteristics of reliability and maintainability and to the most commonly identified sources of technical debt. An open-source plug-in is created for the Understand code analysis tool that calculates and visualizes these metrics.
Jeremy Ludwig +2 more
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Measuring the maintainability of open-source software
2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2005., 2005An editorial in empirical software engineering suggested that open-source software projects offer a great deal of data that can be used for experimentation. These data include artifacts such as source code and defect reports. In this paper we show that sources of open-source maintenance data, such as defect-tracking systems, change logs, and source ...
Liguo Yu +2 more
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The prediction ability of experienced software maintainers
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2002Reports an empirical study of 109 randomly selected maintenance tasks in a large Norwegian software organization. When the maintainers had understood the maintenance task specifications, we asked whether they knew how to solve the task. A high confidence in knowing how to solve the task meant that the maintainers did not expect any major difficulties ...
Magne Jørgensen +2 more
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Data Processing, 1984
Abstract Maintenance of current systems is one of the biggest problems facing DP management. The paper describes a technique: design by objectives, which can be used by systems designers to develop a system with good maintenance characteristics.
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Abstract Maintenance of current systems is one of the biggest problems facing DP management. The paper describes a technique: design by objectives, which can be used by systems designers to develop a system with good maintenance characteristics.
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Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Haskell, 2013
Maintaining software in the face of evolving dependencies is a challenging problem, and in addition to good release practices there is a need for automatic dependency analysis tools to avoid errors creeping in. Verified software reveals more semantic information in the form of mechanized proofs of functional specifications, and this can be used for ...
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Maintaining software in the face of evolving dependencies is a challenging problem, and in addition to good release practices there is a need for automatic dependency analysis tools to avoid errors creeping in. Verified software reveals more semantic information in the form of mechanized proofs of functional specifications, and this can be used for ...
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Producing maintainable software
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 1987Abstract The increasing cost of software maintenance has resulted in greater emphasis on the production of maintainable software. One method used to enhance the development of maintainable software is to employ complexity metrics as a technique for controlling software complexity. In order to control complexity, it is imperative to plan for increases
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Software complexity: An aid to software maintainability
Microelectronics Reliability, 1985Abstract Recent estimates that 40–70% of software cost is being spent after the software has been tested and delivered by the development contractor, makes the area of post-delivery maintenance of software a prime candidate for major technological effort with potentially high return on investment.
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Active files as a measure of software maintainability
Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2014In this paper, we explore the set of source files which are changed unusually often. We define these files as active files. Although discovery of active files relies only on version history and defect classification, the simple concept of active files can deliver key insights into software development activities.
Lukas Schulte +2 more
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