This position paper investigates on the need to put software architecture evaluations for maintainability in a broader perspective than is done until now.

introduction: various types of software are used in health care organizations to manage information and care processes. the quality of software has been an important concern for both health authorities and designers of health information technology. thus, assessing the effect of software quality on the performance quality of healthcare institutions is essential. method: the most important healt...

Virtually any soware dependent organization has a vital interest in reducing its spending for sowaremaintenance activities. In addition to financial savings, formany organizations, the timeneeded to complete a soware maintenance task largely determines their ability to adapt their business processes to changing market situations or to implement innovative products and services. With the pres...

Maintainability is perhaps one of the most important aspects of software development in that maintenance costs account for at least 50% of software system lifetime costs. A common maintenance practice is adding new capabilities to satisfy the evolving system dynamics, thus contributing to the ever-growing expenses. This paper discusses some lessons learned from system modifiability that affect ...

Coupling is an internal software attribute that can be used to indicate the degree of system interdependence among the components of a software. Coupling is thought to be a desirable goal in software construction, leading to better values for maintainability, reusability and reliability. Although several coupling frameworks and coupling metrics have been proposed for aspect-oriented software, t...

In this paper, we define a set of metrics for the evaluation of conceptual models of business processes. The proposal supposes the adaptation and extension of the FMESP framework (Framework for the Modeling and Evaluation of Software Processes). This adaptation can be carried out thanks to the similarities that exist between both types of processes (software and business). FMESP includes a set ...

Spreadsheets are widely used in industry, because they are flexible and easy to use. Often, they are even used for business-critical applications. It is however difficult for spreadsheet users to correctly assess the maintainability of spreadsheets. Maintainability of spreadsheets is important, since spreadsheets often have a long lifespan, during which they are used by several users. In this p...

Maintainability and flexibility at the software level are of predominant importance to drive innovation at the business process level. However, existing definitions of maintainability, such as the Halstead Volume, McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity or the SEI maintainability index provide a very poor understanding of what maintainability is how it can be assessed and ultimately controlled. This pap...

This paper investigates how maintainability can be established in system integration (SI) projects where maintainers have no direct access to the source code of the third-party software being integrated. We propose a model for maintainability in SI focusing on postrelease activities, unlike traditional maintainability models where focus is on pre-release activities. Our model describes maintain...