@inproceedings{7e3af744292a42f18e3ccc5d5a1c42e1,
title = "Metric of modifiability for software maintenance",
abstract = "A model for measuring software modifiability is presented. In this model, the key to the modifiability of a program module is attributed to its localization property, which can be interpreted as indicating whether changes made to the module would have only a localized effect or not. The localization property of a module can be further broken down into intramodular localization and intermodular localization. Corresponding to the localization property are the dependencies among program code entities. A data-interdependency metric for measuring the dependencies among primitive statements in a module is developed. The metric is then extended to incorporate intermodular localization property to measure the modifiability of program modules. A number of software maintenance experiments were designed and conducted for validating the software modifiability metric. The details of the experimentation as well as the results are presented.",
author = "Yau, {Stephen S.} and Chang, {Pao Sheng}",
year = "1988",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "081860879X",
series = "Conf on Software Maint 1988 Proc",
publisher = "Publ by IEEE",
pages = "374--381",
booktitle = "Conf on Software Maint 1988 Proc",
}