Quantifying Maintainability of Object Oriented Design: An Organized Review

Mohit Kumar; Dr. Jarnail Singh; Dr. Abdullah

Abstract

Maintainability is one of the most important quality indicators. Its correct estimation or evaluation, all the time make easy and improve the test and maintenance process. However, maintainability has always been an elusive concept and its correct quantification or evaluation is a difficult exercise. Researchers and practitioners have always argued that maintainability should be considered as a key attribute in order to assurance the software quality. It has been find out from systematic literature review that area researchers, quality controllers, and industry personnel had made significant efforts to estimating software maintainability but at the source code level. Calculating maintainability at source code level directs to late arrival of desired information. An exact measure of software quality fully depends on maintainability quantification This paper shows the results of an organized literature review conducted to collect related evidence on maintainability quantification of object-oriented software. In this paper, our objective is to find the known complete and comprehensive software maintainability quantification model and related framework for estimating the maintainability of object-oriented software at an initial stage of development life cycle. Software maintainability has turn into one of the most significant concerns of the software industry. Maintainability is a key quality attribute of software systems.

Keywords

Maintainability, Modularity, Reusability, Analyzability, Modifiability and Testability, Design phase, Object Oriented Design

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M. Kumar, D. J. Singh, D. Abdullah, "Quantifying Maintainability of Object Oriented Design: An Organized Review", International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Management (IJIREM), Vol-6, Issue-6, Page No-63-69, 2019. Available from: