An empirical study into class testability
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 4th source code analysis and manipulation (SCAM 2004) workshop
Adaptive Detection of Design Flaws
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Environmental modeling framework invasiveness: Analysis and implications
Environmental Modelling & Software
Assessing architectural evolution: a case study
Empirical Software Engineering
Rank-based refactoring decision support: two studies
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
A methodology to assess the impact of design patterns on software quality
Information and Software Technology
Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using internal quality attributes
Information and Software Technology
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A large number of metrics have been proposed formeasuring properties of object-oriented software such assize, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have beeninvestigating which of these object-oriented metrics canbe used as significant predictors for the maintainability ofsoftware. For this purpose, we have designed andconducted an empirical study based on historical datacollected from the maintenance history of a medium-sizedobject-oriented system. Unlike most related studies,indirect coupling has also been taken into account in ourwork in order to evaluate its impact. Our study uses themaintenance history of two software systems as evidencebase for linking software quality attributes to metricssuggested for object-oriented software. Our resultsindicate that size and import direct coupling metrics aresignificant predictors for measuring maintainability ofclasses while inheritance, cohesion, and indirect/exportcoupling measures are not.