Context Software maintainability is one of the fundamental quality attributes of software
engineering. The accurate prediction of software maintainability is a significant challenge for …

Software maintenance is an expensive activity that consumes a major portion of the cost of
the total project. Various activities carried out during maintenance include the addition of …

This book has been a much longer process than I would have ever anticipated. The original
idea was to integrate and combine the research on software product quality control with my …

Code comments are a primary means to document source code. Keeping comments up-to-
date during code change activities requires substantial time and attention. For this reason …

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods have developed a strong foothold in
the design space in industry. These methods have proven fruitful when the right method is …

Measuring software maintainability early in the development life cycle, especially at the
design phase, may help designers to incorporate required enhancement and corrections for …

Maintaining software once implemented on the end-user side is laborious and, over its
lifetime, is most often considerably more expensive than the initial software development …

Many organizations assess the maintainability of software systems before they are
deployed. Object-oriented design has been shown to be a useful technique to develop and …

An accurate maintenance effort model is essential for a successful software maintenance
process. Maintenance effort is usually measured in person‐hours used to perform a …

Before controlling the quality of software systems, we need to assess it. In the case of
maintainability, this often happens with manual expert reviews. Current automatic …