NDLI: Revealing the Effect of Coding Practices on Software Maintainability

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hegedus, P.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Software Eng., Univ. of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary (Hegedus, P.)
Abstract	Due to its very obvious and direct connection with the costs of altering the behavior of a software, maintainability is probably the most attractive, observed and evaluated quality characteristic of the software products. There are many coding practices and techniques that may influence the maintainability of a system (e.g. design patterns, coding rules, anti-patterns, refactoring techniques). However, the empirical evidences of the connection between coding practices and maintainability are vague due to the following reasons: i) finding instances of coding primitives like design patterns, anti-patterns, etc. precisely with reverse engineering tools is not easy, ii) the lack of mature practical quality models for objective calculation of maintainability and handling its ambiguity, iii) few empirical studies directly evaluating the connection of coding techniques and software maintainability. The presented work focuses on solving these major problems by creating a benchmark for evaluating the performance of different reverse engineering tools and introducing a novel probabilistic approach for measuring software maintainability. By performing case studies based on new analysis methods we evince that there is a significant correlation between the design pattern density and the maintainability of a system, e.g. 0.89 Pearson correlation for JHotDraw. Moreover, preliminary studies show that applying refactoring has indeed a traceable positive impact on software maintainability as anticipated.
Starting Page	578
Ending Page	581
File Size	179797
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769549811
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2013.99
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-22
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software Encoding Benchmark testing Computational modeling ISO standards IEC standards Reverse engineering Case Study Software Maintainability ISO/IEC 9126 Desin Patterns Anti-patterns Refactoring
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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