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Maintainability Analysis of Component-Based Software Architecture

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 731))

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The analysis of the maintainability of a component-based software system (CBSS) architecture is a critical issue as it majorly contributes to the overall quality, risks, and economics of the software product life cycle. Architectural styles’ features of CBSS, which characterize maintainability, are identified and represented as architecture-style-maintainability digraph. The maintainability scenarios are represented by the digraph nodes. The edges of the digraph represent the degree of influence among the scenarios. A detailed procedure for the maintainability analysis of CBSS is suggested through a maintainability function. The scenario maintainability index SMI measures the maintainability of a system. A lower value of the SMI implies better maintainability of the system. The maintainability analysis procedure mentioned in the paper helps the key stakeholders of the CBSS in managing, controlling, and improvising the maintainability of a system by appropriately incorporating maintainability scenarios in heterogeneous architectural styles.

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  1. Information Technology and Production & Operations Management, Goa Institute of Management, Sattari, India

    Nitin Upadhyay

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  1. Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    M. N. Hoda

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad, Haryana, India

    Naresh Chauhan

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    S. M. K. Quadri

  4. Department of Information Technology and Systems, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Praveen Ranjan Srivastava

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Upadhyay, N. (2019). Maintainability Analysis of Component-Based Software Architecture. In: Hoda, M., Chauhan, N., Quadri, S., Srivastava, P. (eds) Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 731. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_37

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