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Ninth International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS'03)
p. 309
Assessing the Maintainability Benefits of Design Restructuring Using Dependency Analysis
Robert Leitch, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd.
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta
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Software developers and project managers often have to assess the quality of software design. A commonly adopted hypothesis is that a good design should cost less to maintain than a poor design. In this paper, we propose a model for quantifying the quality of a design from a maintainability perspective. Based on this model, we propose a novel strategy for predicting the "Return on Investment" (ROI) for possible design restructurings using procedure-level dependency analysis. We demonstrate this approach with two exploratory Java case studies. Our results show that common low-level source code transformations change the system dependency structure in a beneficial way, allowing recovery of the initial
refactoring investment over a number of maintenance activities.
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Citation:
Robert Leitch, Eleni Stroulia,
"Assessing the Maintainability Benefits of Design Restructuring Using Dependency Analysis,"
metrics,
p. 309,
Ninth International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS'03),
2003
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