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In the present world of innovation where different software applications simply called APPs flood the markets, application stability remains an important phenomenon in software business. End-users amongst other things often request to know which release is the stable product of a version and how stable the product is compared to other releases and related products in the market. Declaration of a specific release as a stable software release by the software developers may not sufficiently address the stability issues raised by the end-users as they do not state the percentage stability level of the product. This article presents a technique that utilizes software maturity index (SMI) with components ranking schemes in measuring and determining applications stability before they are finally released to the public as the stable product. A low stability percentage from the assessment indicates product immaturity and imminent changes regarding its behavior, functionalities and APIs specifications. It could also provide reasonable guides in terms of changes to be effected to further enhance its stability. Whereas, a high stability percentage duly obtained could boast the confidence of the developers and the end-users in the product.
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Ekanem, B.A., Woherem, E. (2019). Measuring Application Stability Using Software Stability Assessment Technique. In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01177-2_32
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