A Tool‐Based Perspective on Software Code Maintainability Metrics: A Systematic Literature Review

L Ardito, R Coppola, L Barbato… - Scientific …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Software maintainability is a crucial property of software projects. It can be defined as the
ease with which a software system or component can be modified to be corrected, improved …

Can instability variations warn developers when open-source projects boost?

R Capilla, V Salamanca, A Valdezate… - Empirical Software …, 2024 - Springer
Although architecture instability has been studied and measured using a variety of metrics, a
deeper analysis of which project parts are less stable and how such instability varies over …

Stability in software engineering: Survey of the state-of-the-art and research directions

M Salama, R Bahsoon, P Lago - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing dependence on software systems, their longevity is becoming a pressing
need. Stability is envisioned as a primary property to achieve longevity. Stability has been …

Comparison of compression-based measures with application to the evolution of primate genomes

D Pratas, RM Silva, AJ Pinho - Entropy, 2018 - mdpi.com
An efficient DNA compressor furnishes an approximation to measure and compare
information quantities present in, between and across DNA sequences, regardless of the …

Evolution prediction and process support of OSS studies: a systematic mapping

G Rasool, N Fazal - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Open source software (OSS) evolution is an important research domain, and it is
continuously getting more and more attention of researchers. A large number of studies are …

An empirical study on the architecture instability of software projects

L Aversano, D Guardabascio… - International Journal of …, 2019 - World Scientific
Software architecture is an artifact that expresses how the initial concept of a software
system has actually been implemented. However, changes to the requirement imply …

Analyzing the instability of the core components of software projects

L Aversano, D Guarda, M Tortorella - 2018 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
Open source software projects represent a significant source of existing pieces of software to
be identified and used to implement new or emerging requirements. However, the high …

Architectural stability of self-adaptive software systems

MMEM Salama - 2018 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
This thesis studies the notion of stability in software engineering with the aim of
understanding its dimensions, facets and aspects, as well as characterising it. The thesis …

[PDF][PDF] Using Peer Comparison Approaches to Measure Software Stability

L Yu, Y Li, S Ramaswamy - 2018 - scholarworks.iu.edu
Software systems must change to adapt to new functional requirements and new
nonfunctional requirements. This is called software revision. However, not all the modules …

Manutenibilità del codice sorgente scritto in Rust= Code maintainability in Rust

D Verga - 2020 - webthesis.biblio.polito.it
Manutenibilità del codice sorgente scritto in Rust CONTESTO: Rust è un linguaggio di
programmazione open-source, sviluppato dalla Community di Mozilla e progettato …