Assessment of Geant4 Maintainability with respect to software engineering references
Elisabetta Ronchieri, Maria Grazia Pia, Marco Canaparo · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2017
Over time computer scientists have been provided metrics to measure software maintainability. In existing literature, a large number of references can be found about this topic; nevertheless, a lack of quantitative assessment of maintainability metrics has been observed. In this paper, we summarize the challenges of adopting code measurements in the context of physics software system. In this pilot study, we have used Geant4 - a twenty-year-old software system - to conduct this research and set the grounds for further discussion.