A metric for estimating maintenance effort based on change impact analysis
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Cost of software maintenance is estimated based on the experience by some experts since the standard for objective measurement is not available currently. We proposed a metric for estimating maintenance effort in this paper. The metric is computed by applying the change impact analysis to source code. Through experiments, we confirmed that the proposed metric estimate the maintenance effort better than existing metrics.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007