An Empirical Study of Relationship between Object-oriented Metrics and Maintainability


The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 241-250, Apr. 2006
10.3745/KIPSTD.2006.13.2.241,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Software maintenance is an important and very expensive activity in software life cycle. To estimate the maintainability cost of software, many software metrics have been proposed. This paper presents the result of an experimental study to explore the relationship between maintainability and some software metrics. LCOM, RFC, DAC, and LOC are employed as metrics and time really spent for maintenance activity has been collected. In the experimental study, we have found that for some systems, the existing metrics may not be an indicator to maintenance effort, which is not consistent with our general knowledge on the relationship between them. Specifically speaking, we recognized that there should be more empirical study on the relationship between metrics and maintainability of softwares which have been developed using recent technologies such as software architecture and design pattern.


Statistics
Show / Hide Statistics

Statistics (Cumulative Counts from September 1st, 2017)
Multiple requests among the same browser session are counted as one view.
If you mouse over a chart, the values of data points will be shown.


Cite this article
[IEEE Style]
W. S. Jung and H. S. Chae, "An Empirical Study of Relationship between Object-oriented Metrics and Maintainability," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 241-250, 2006. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2006.13.2.241.

[ACM Style]
Woo Seong Jung and Heung Seok Chae. 2006. An Empirical Study of Relationship between Object-oriented Metrics and Maintainability. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 13, 2, (2006), 241-250. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2006.13.2.241.