We introduce the observe-mine-adopt (OMA) paradigm that assists organizations in making improvements to their software development processes without committing to and undertaking large-scale sweeping organizational process improvement. Specifically, the approach has been applied to improve software practices focused on maintainability. This novel approach is based on the theory that software te...

Software maintainability depends both on qualitative and quantitative data. Existing maintainability models aggregate data into hierarchies of characteristics with given dependencies. However, data used to score the characteristics can be uncertain or even completely unknown. Therefore, it would be meaningful to evaluate sensitivity of the aggregated result, i.e. the maintainability, with respe...

The increase dependence on software aspects has led the society to emphasize the importance of software quality and metrics. At present there are two categories of quality metrics; dynamic and static. Although dynamic metrics can provide a clearer insight into the software quality issue; it is observed that static metrics are often used for such a purpose. This is due mainly to the technical di...

A challenge in software design is to find solutions that balance and optimize the quality attributes of a system. It is not always possible to maximize each attribute and one has to make trade-offs. In this paper we present a case-study of an application where a key component, special designed to be highly maintainable, caused an unexpected and serious performance problem. Interviews with the d...

Conventionally, maintainability is seen as an attribute of software; measures which aim to quantify maintainability are all expressed in terms of attributes of the source code or related documentation. Such metrics do not correspond with intuition, and fail in important ways; for example they are not used by industry in assessing lifecycle costs. Maintainability is related to the skills of the ...

This chapter presents experiences from five large performancedemanding industrial applications. Performance and maintainability are two prioritized qualities in all of these systems. We have identified a number of conflicts between performance and maintainability. We have also identified three major techniques for handling these conflicts. (1) By defining guidelines for obtaining acceptable per...

(PANDEMIC Covid-19) is an educational shooter game inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic which occurred from end of 2019 until early 2022. There are 2 modes, namely Third-Person Shooter, or TPS, and First-Person FPS. This study was carried out to highlight absence a genre used in student learning process. The research methodology development this applied pressman method, stages include planning, an...

Maintainability is one of the most considerable quality indicators. Its truthful quantification always support and enhance the maintenance process. An exact measure of software quality fully depends on maintainability quantification. It is very hard to find a comprehensible view on all the probable factors that have positive effect on software testability quantification. The most significant ap...

Software maintainability has been considered as a main characteristic in many software product quality models. However, these models have different definitions for maintainability and sub characteristics. ISO 9126 is one of the main and most frequently used models in software product quality. This model has been revised and replaced by ISO 25010 as a new model of software product quality. In ad...