System acquisition based on software product assessment
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Advances in Engineering Software
Towards an Ontology of software maintenance
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
An Experimental Comparison of the Maintainability of Object-Orientedand Structured Design Documents
Empirical Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A controlled experiment on inheritance depth as a cost factor for code maintenance
Journal of Systems and Software
A method to standardize usability metrics into a single score
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems (Winthrop computer systems series)
IEEE Software
Challenges in Software Evolution
IWPSE '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Subjective evaluation of software evolvability using code smells: An empirical study
Empirical Software Engineering
Assessing software product maintainability based on class-level structural measures
PROFES'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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The evolvability, the ease of further development, of a software systems is difficult to assess, but may have large economic consequences. Many studies have investigated the relations between particular software metrics and effort on evolving individual classes, but little attention has been given to methods for assessing and measuring evolvability of complete software systems. This paper discusses such methods, and motivates that they should use a combination of structural code measures and expert assessments. This is exemplified in a case study assessing the evolvability of four functionally equivalent systems. The paper also gives with directions for future work on evolvability assessments.