Measuring maintainability of spreadsheets in the wild

  • Authors:
  • Jose Pedro Correia;Miguel Alexandre Ferreira

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Several studies have shown how spreadsheets are pervasive in many organizations as a form of end-user programming. Despite their importance and long lifespan, they are seldom developed with maintenance concerns in mind, and organizations have no efficient way of estimating the risk they present.