A Model for Object-Oriented Software Maintainability Measurement

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Author(s)

Morteza Asadi 1,* Hassan Rashidi 2

1. Faculty of Computer and Information Technology Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad, University, Qazvin, Iran

2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Allameh Tabataba'i University,Tehran,Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2016.01.07

Received: 12 May 2015 / Revised: 11 Aug. 2015 / Accepted: 20 Oct. 2015 / Published: 8 Jan. 2016

Index Terms

Software maintenance, maintainability, object-oriented software, PHP framework, PHP

Abstract

Software maintenance is one of the main quality characteristics of the software product. The maintainability of a system is a measure of the ability of the system to undergo maintenance or to return to normal operation after a failure. In this paper, a new model to improve the maintainability of object-oriented software has been proposed. The proposed model is based on newer versions of software quality standard and it is according to the measurement of several new metric. This model has been evaluated on famous PHP framework and the results showed that the proposed model is effective compared with the previous models.

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Morteza Asadi, Hassan Rashidi, "A Model for Object-Oriented Software Maintainability Measurement", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), Vol.8, No.1, pp.60-66, 2016. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2016.01.07

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