Design property metrics to maintainability estimation
T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair, Sri Aravindh, R. Selvarani · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2010
Software maintenance is a vital component that every company has to face when their product is delivered to the stakeholders. This task may span for more than ten years at the customer site.The cost of maintenance or keeping software operational consumes 60-70% of its entire life cycle cost. Definingmaintainability at the design stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC) will result in a cost effective product. In this paper, we proposed a design time relationship model between design properties and the maintainability of the software. This analysis is performed based on the influence of object oriented design metrics on software maintainability