Software maintainability is defined as the ease with which modifications could be made in to the software once it is delivered to the customer. While evaluating the quality of the software product, software maintainability is one of the most important aspects and it is desirable that the software should be designed and coded in such a way that it becomes more maintainable. Tracking the maintena...

Selecting the right components to design a mobile application involve some deep thoughts and difficult decisions to make. In this paper, we present a framework to ease the decision making process. The framework is based on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) paradigm. COTS techniques aim to reduce development time and hence decrease cost compared to a traditional system development. First, an ident...

The lifetime of a product is dependent on its maintainability. It is proved that a lot of cost spent towards maintainability. Researchers find it as a difficult task to measure and improve software maintainability. Here we proposed a risk based approach to improve software maintainability. Risk based approach accounts the probability of failure of a portion of code as determined by its complexi...

Software engineering society has suggested many methods of software architecture to enhance the preferred quality with concern of performance, reliability, maintainability, usability etc. However little effort is required for systematic comparison of these methods to mind variances and resemblances between existing methods. By using an evaluation framework, we will compare four famous software ...

The software maintainability can be ensured by carefully control of its software development process. An early measurement of maintainability starting from design phase is always desirable to produce maintainable software. Some of the researchers have tried to use soft computing techniques to measure maintainability. In spite of their reported validations, these models are not calibrated and no...