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    Software Maintenance Prediction

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    Software maintenance prediction refers to studying software maintainability, modifications, and maintenance costs required to maintain a system. Various predictions are related and specify that decisions to accept changes depend on affected components' maintainability. Implementing changes degrades structure and maintainability, while costs depend on components' maintainability. To predict requested changes, a system's relationship with its environment must be understood by assessing interfaces, requirements volatility, and business processes. To predict maintainability, a system's component relationships and complexities must be considered, as more complex components are more difficult and expensive to maintain. Process metrics like corrective maintenance time, impact analysis time, outstanding change requests, and change implementation time can also predict maintainability by indicating declines.

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    Software maintenance prediction refers to studying software maintainability, modifications, and maintenance costs required to maintain a system. Various predictions are related and specify that decisions to accept changes depend on affected components' maintainability. Implementing changes degrades structure and maintainability, while costs depend on components' maintainability. To predict requested changes, a system's relationship with its environment must be understood by assessing interfaces, requirements volatility, and business processes. To predict maintainability, a system's component relationships and complexities must be considered, as more complex components are more difficult and expensive to maintain. Process metrics like corrective maintenance time, impact analysis time, outstanding change requests, and change implementation time can also predict maintainability by indicating declines.

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    Software maintenance prediction refers to studying software maintainability, modifications, and maintenance costs required to maintain a system. Various predictions are related and specify that decisions to accept changes depend on affected components' maintainability. Implementing changes degrades structure and maintainability, while costs depend on components' maintainability. To predict requested changes, a system's relationship with its environment must be understood by assessing interfaces, requirements volatility, and business processes. To predict maintainability, a system's component relationships and complexities must be considered, as more complex components are more difficult and expensive to maintain. Process metrics like corrective maintenance time, impact analysis time, outstanding change requests, and change implementation time can also predict maintainability by indicating declines.

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    Software Maintenance Prediction

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    Software maintenance prediction refers to studying software maintainability, modifications, and maintenance costs required to maintain a system. Various predictions are related and specify that decisions to accept changes depend on affected components' maintainability. Implementing changes degrades structure and maintainability, while costs depend on components' maintainability. To predict requested changes, a system's relationship with its environment must be understood by assessing interfaces, requirements volatility, and business processes. To predict maintainability, a system's component relationships and complexities must be considered, as more complex components are more difficult and expensive to maintain. Process metrics like corrective maintenance time, impact analysis time, outstanding change requests, and change implementation time can also predict maintainability by indicating declines.

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    Software

    Maintenance
    Prediction
    Software maintenance prediction

    ▪ refers to the study of software maintainability,


    the modifications in the software system, and
    the maintenance costs that are required to
    maintain the software system.

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    Various predictions are closely related and specify
    the following.
    ▪ 1.     The decision to accept a system change depends on the
    maintainability of the system components affected by that
    change up to a certain extent.
    ▪ 2.    Implementation of changes results in degradation of
    system structure as well as reduction in system maintainability.
    ▪ 3.     Costs involved in implementing changes depend on the
    maintainability of the system components.

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    ▪ To predict the number of changes requested for
    a system, the relationship between the system
    and its external environment should be properly
    understood. To know the kind of relationship
    that exists, organizations should assess the
    following.

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    ▪ 1.     Number and the complexity involved in the system
    interface. More interfaces mean more complexity, which in
    turn means more demand for change.
    ▪ 2.   Number of system (volatile) requirements. Changes
    required in organizational policies and procedures tend to be
    more volatile than the requirements based on a particular
    domain.
    ▪ 3.    Number of business processes in which the system
    operates. More business processes implies more demands for
    system change. 6
    ▪ To predict maintainability of a software system,
    it is important to consider the relationship
    among the different components and the
    complexity involved in them.

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    COMPLEXITY

    ▪ Generally, it is observed that a software system having complex


    components is difficult and expensive to maintain.
    ▪ The complexity in a software system occurs due to the size of
    procedures and functions, the size and the number of modules, and
    the nested structures in the software code.
    ▪ a software system developed by using good programming practices
    reduces not only the complexity but also the effort required in
    software maintenance. As a result, such software systems minimize
    the maintenance cost. 

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    After a system has been put into
    operation, several process metrics are
    used to predict the software
    maintainability. Process metrics, which
    may be useful for assessing
    maintainability, are listed below.
    ▪ 1.     Corrective maintenance: Sometimes,
    more errors are introduced rather than being
    repaired during the maintenance process. This
    shows decline in maintainability.

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    ▪ 2.  Average time required for impact
    analysis: Before starting the software
    maintenance process, it is essential to analyze
    the impact of modifications in the software
    system. This is known as impact analysis, which
    reflects the number of components affected by
    the change.
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    ▪ 3.   Number of outstanding change
    requests: If the number of outstanding change
    requests increases with time, it may imply
    decline in maintainability.

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    ▪ 4. Average time taken to implement a change
    request: This involves activities· concerned with
    making changes to the system and its
    documentation rather than simply assessing the
    components which are affected. If the time
    taken to implement a change increases, it may
    imply a decline in maintainability.
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