A Tool-Based Perspective on Software Code Maintainability Metrics: A Systematic Literature Review
المؤلفون المشاركون
Ardito, Luca
Coppola, Riccardo
Barbato, Luca
Verga, Diego
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-26، 26ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-08-04
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
26
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Software maintainability is a crucial property of software projects.
It can be defined as the ease with which a software system or component can be modified to be corrected, improved, or adapted to its environment.
The software engineering literature proposes many models and metrics to predict the maintainability of a software project statically.
However, there is no common accordance with the most dependable metrics or metric suites to evaluate such nonfunctional property.
The goals of the present manuscript are as follows: (i) providing an overview of the most popular maintainability metrics according to the related literature; (ii) finding what tools are available to evaluate software maintainability; and (iii) linking the most popular metrics with the available tools and the most common programming languages.
To this end, we performed a systematic literature review, following Kitchenham’s SLR guidelines, on the most relevant scientific digital libraries.
The SLR outcome provided us with 174 software metrics, among which we identified a set of 15 most commonly mentioned ones, and 19 metric computation tools available to practitioners.
We found optimal sets of at most five tools to cover all the most commonly mentioned metrics.
The results also highlight missing tool coverage for some metrics on commonly used programming languages and minimal coverage of metrics for newer or less popular programming languages.
We consider these results valuable for researchers and practitioners who want to find the best selection of tools to evaluate the maintainability of their projects or to bridge the discussed coverage gaps for newer programming languages.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Ardito, Luca& Coppola, Riccardo& Barbato, Luca& Verga, Diego. 2020. A Tool-Based Perspective on Software Code Maintainability Metrics: A Systematic Literature Review. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1209184
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Ardito, Luca…[et al.]. A Tool-Based Perspective on Software Code Maintainability Metrics: A Systematic Literature Review. Scientific Programming No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1209184
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Ardito, Luca& Coppola, Riccardo& Barbato, Luca& Verga, Diego. A Tool-Based Perspective on Software Code Maintainability Metrics: A Systematic Literature Review. Scientific Programming. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1209184
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1209184
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