The object-oriented brewery: a comparison of two object-oriented development methods
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Object-oriented metrics that predict maintainability
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on object-oriented software
Construction and testing of polynomials predicting software maintainability
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue of the best papers from the Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics, 1993
A software complexity model of object-oriented systems
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on information technologies and systems
Cohesion and reuse in an object-oriented system
SSR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Software reusability
System acquisition based on software product assessment
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
An investigation into coupling measures for C++
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Development and application of an automated source code maintainability index
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An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Exploring the relationship between design measures and software quality in object-oriented systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Integrating scenario-based and measurement-based software product assessment
Journal of Systems and Software
A Hierarchical Model for Object-Oriented Design Quality Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
A new method to evaluate software artifacts against predefined profiles
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Metrics
IT Professional
Identifying Quality-Requirement Conflicts
IEEE Software
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The Impact of Design Properties on Development Cost in Object-Oriented Systems
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
The Use of Software Quality Metrics in the Materiel Release Process - Experience Report
APAQS '01 Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
Evidence-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Extracting Facts from Open Source Software
ICSM '04 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
A new reusability metric for object-oriented software
Software Quality Control
Evidence-Based Software Engineering for Practitioners
IEEE Software
IEEE Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Assessment of software system evolvability
Ninth international workshop on Principles of software evolution: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting
Using concept mapping for maintainability assessments
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Benchmarking library and application software with Data Envelopment Analysis
Software Quality Control
Questioning software maintenance metrics: a comparative case study
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using internal quality attributes
Information and Software Technology
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A number of structural measures have been suggested to support the assessment and prediction of software quality attributes. The aim of our study is to investigate how class-level measures of structural properties can be used to assess the maintainability of a software product as a whole. We survey, structure and discuss current practices on this topic, and apply alternative strategies on four functionally equivalent systems that were constructed as part of a multi-case study. In the absence of historical data needed to build statistically based prediction models, we apply elements of judgment in the assessment. We show how triangulation of alternative strategies as well as sensitivity analysis may increase the confidence in assessments that contain elements of judgment. This paper contributes to more systematic practices in the application of structural measures. Further research is needed to evaluate and improve the accuracy and precision of judgment-based strategies.