Micro process analysis of maintenance effort: an open source software case study using metrics based on program slicing

摘要: SUMMARY For any software project, most experts regard the maintenance phase as effort and cost intensive of all phases in development life cycle. This is due to high effort, time, resources needed effectively address issues during (maintenance activities). Mismanagement these efforts can lead degradation maintainability. Understanding assessment related processes help sustain or improve maintainability activities. Recent studies have shown that current process assessments are expensive, generic, complex, especially for smaller organizations. In this paper, we investigate an alternative approach performed by analyzing fine-grained (micro processes) assesses based on micro relation their impact source code. The derives from complexity duration uses proposed metrics program slicing measure change impact. analysing At statistically significant levels, results suggest level correlates with its Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.