Why Is It Important to Measure Maintainability and What Are the Best Ways to Do It?

• DOI: 10.1109/icse-c.2017.75
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03T16:44:57Z
• Authors: Celia Chen; Reem Alfayez; Kamonphop Srisopha; Barry Boehm; Lin Shi
• Keywords: Maintainability; Software metric; Software Maintenance; Component (thermodynamics)

Being highly maintainable is the key to reducing approximately 75% of most systems' life cycle costs. Software maintainability defined as ease with which a software system or component can be modified, correct faults, improve performance other attributes, adapt changed environment. There exist metrics that help developers measure and analyze level project objectively. Most these involve automated analysis code. In this extended abstract paper, we addressed importance understanding maintainability, explored some best ways briefly described comparison study conducted between human-assessed through controlled experiment by performing change-request modifications on open source (OSS) projects.