Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
This paper describes our experience in developing a software system for use in the environmental modeling community. The primary user of this software is intended to be a scientis...
—This paper describes the results of an investigation into a set of metrics for object-oriented design, called the MOOD metrics. The merits of each of the six MOOD metrics is dis...
Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, Reuben V. Nithi
Coupling in software has been linked with maintainability and existing metrics are used as predictors of external software quality attributes such as fault-proneness, impact analy...
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...