Predicting maintenance performance using object-oriented design complexity metrics

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-87

  Bandi, Rajendra K ^a   Vaishnavi, Vijay K ^b   Turk, Daniel E ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Metrics validation; Object oriented metrics; Predicting software maintenance time; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPLEXITY METRICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037246366     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1166590     Document Type: Article

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