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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2006.13D.2.241

An Empirical Study of Relationship between Object-oriented Metrics and Maintainability  

Jung Woo-Seong (한진중공업 정보시스템)
Chae Heung-Seok (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.13D, no.2, 2006 , pp. 241-250 More about this Journal
Abstract
Software maintenance is an important and very expensive activity in software life cycle. To estimate the maintainability cost of software, many software metrics have been proposed. This paper presents the result of an experimental study to explore the relationship between maintainability and some software metrics. LCOM, RFC, DAC, and LOC are employed as metrics and time really spent for maintenance activity has been collected. In the experimental study, we have found that for some systems, the existing metrics may not be an indicator to maintenance effort, which is not consistent with our general knowledge on the relationship between them. Specifically speaking, we recognized that there should be more empirical study on the relationship between metrics and maintainability of softwares which have been developed using recent technologies such as software architecture and design pattern.
Keywords
Object-Oriented Metrics; Maintainability;
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