A Model of Maintainability - Suggestion for Future Research

Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Gerardo Canfora, Dan Chiorean, Arie van Deursen, Tuomas Ihme, Meir M. Lehman, Rupert Reiger, Torsten Engel, Josef Wernke

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Abstract

Lack of a commonly defined maintainability model hinders us from evaluating and certifying products with respect to maintainability. We cannot compare different products within and across organisations. We have difficulties to evolve and maintain software. We cannot try new development paradigms and evaluate their effects on product maintainability. We have no commonly defined maintainability model to base our software engineering research. In this paper, we outline a suggestion for a model of maintainability. We advocate to the software community to gather its resources in order to develop the model. Such a model would have a substantial long-term impact within research, industry, standardisation authorities and education. This paper lists ideas for a maintainability
model with the aim to provide an initial milestone for
ample discussion within the software engineering
community.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice, SERP'06
EditorsHamid R. Arabnia, Hassan Reza
Place of PublicationLas Vegas
PublisherCSREA Press
Pages436-441
Volume1
ISBN (Print)1-932415-92-0
Publication statusPublished - 2006
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
EventInternational Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice & Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers, SERP 2006 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 26 Jun 200629 Jun 2006

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice & Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers, SERP 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period26/06/0629/06/06

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