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...

Maintainability is an internal quality characteristic that is contemplated by many users and developers, and therefore is deeply related to software architecture. It presents an organization of its components and relation which promote or obstruct different attributes like testability, changeability, and analyzability. As part of a research in progress, this article analyzes and organizes a set...

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...

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...

The maintainability aspect of some complex products has a significant role during the life cycle; it is the design attribute determining the performance of various maintenance activities such as: inspection, diagnosis, repair, and replacement. If a product has poor maintainability, the maintenance activities which have to be performed on it during its life cycle are difficult, increasing the co...