Assessing the maintainability benefits of design restructuring using dependency analysis

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 309-322

  Leitch, R ^a   Stroulia, E ^b  

^a MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business; Costs; Investments; Predictive models; Project management; Quality management; Regression analysis; Software design; Software development management; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; MAINTAINABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE MODELS; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION; SYSTEM DEPENDENCIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84943175348     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2003.1232477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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