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Surveying the factors that influence maintainability: research design

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Wiebe Hordijk,

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30, Issue 5

Pages 385 - 388

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081769

Published: 01 September 2005 Publication History

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We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes in software is a major cost driver. We take an empirical, qualitative approach, by investigating cases where a change has cost more or less than comparable changes, and analysing the causes for those differences. We will use this analysis of causes as input to following research in which the individual contributions of a selection of those causes will be quantitatively analysed.

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Surveying the factors that influence maintainability: research design
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
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        Software product lines
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 5

September 2005

462 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1095430

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ESEC/FSE-13: Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
September 2005
402 pages
ISBN:1595930140
DOI:10.1145/1081706
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