Metrics for Software Maintainability

Research in this area focuses on metrics that evaluate software maintainability and change impact. It aims to develop methodologies for assessing software changes and predicting maintainability outcomes.

maintainability metrics

change impact

evaluation methodologies

predictive analysis

software assessment

2,602 papers

Parent topic: Software Engineering and Practices

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Top Papers

Object-oriented Metrics That Predict Maintainability

1993 · 704 citations

Predicting Fault Incidence Using Software Change History

2000 · 540 citations

Classifying Software Changes: Clean Or Buggy?

2008 · 496 citations

Cross-project Defect Prediction

2009 · 481 citations

A Comparative Analysis Of The Efficiency Of Change Metrics And Static Code Attributes For Defect Prediction

2008 · 475 citations

Change And Customisation In Complex Engineering Domains

2004 · 424 citations

Does Code Decay? Assessing The Evidence From Change Management Data

2001 · 400 citations

0 · 370 citations

Version Models For Software Configuration Management

1998 · 348 citations

Software Maintenance And Evolution

2000 · 331 citations

An Exploratory Study Of The Impact Of Antipatterns On Class Change- And Fault-Proneness

2011 · 288 citations

Mining Version Histories To Guide Software Changes

0 · 279 citations

Managing Technical Debt In Software-Reliant Systems

2010 · 252 citations

Populating A Release History Database From Version Control And Bug Tracking Systems

0 · 242 citations

Evolution In Open Source Software: A Case Study

2000 · 237 citations

Quantifying The Effect Of Code Smells On Maintenance Effort

2013 · 234 citations

Proactive Management Of Software Aging

2001 · 222 citations

Types Of Software Evolution And Software Maintenance

2001 · 215 citations

An Empirical Study Of The Bad Smells And Class Error Probability In The Post-Release Object-Oriented System Evolution

2007 · 184 citations

Metrics Based Refactoring

0 · 160 citations