Reusing class-based test cases for testing object-oriented framework interface classes: Research Articles
An application framework provides a reusable design and implementation for a family of software systems. Frameworks are introduced to reduce the cost of a product line (i.e., family of products that share the common features) and to increase the ...
Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SMmm): the software maintenance process model: Research Articles
We address the assessment and improvement of the software maintenance function by proposing a maturity model for daily software maintenance activities: the Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SMmm). The software maintenance function suffers from a ...
Assessing the capability of internal metrics as early indicators of maintenance effort through experimentation: Research Articles
The complexity of software artifacts is widely believed to be an important determinant of maintenance effort. This paper conducts an experimental analysis of the impact of complexity on the maintenance of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) class ...
