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Being highly maintainable is the key to reduce approximately 75% of most systems’ life cycle costs. Software maintainability is defined as the ease with which a software system or a component can be modified, to correct faults, improve performance or other attributes, or adapt to a changed environment. There exist metrics that can help developers measure and analyze the maintainability level of a project objectively. Most of these metrics involve automated analysis of the code. In this paper, we evaluate the software maintainability versus a set of human-evaluation factors used in the Constructive Cost Model II (COCOMO II) Software Understandability (SU) metric, through conducting a controlled experiment on humans assessing SU and performing change-request modifications on open source software (OSS) projects.
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Chen, C., Alfayez, R., Srisopha, K., Shi, L., Boehm, B. (2016). Evaluating Human-Assessed Software Maintainability Metrics. In: Zhang, L., Xu, C. (eds) Software Engineering and Methodology for Emerging Domains. NASAC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 675. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3482-4_9
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