Evaluating Maintainability of Open Source Software: A Case Study

Q4 Computer Science

International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI:10.4018/IJOSSP.2017010101

Feras Hanandeh, A. Saifan, Mohammed Akour, Noor Khamis Al-Hussein, K. Shatnawi

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Abstract

Maintainability is one of the most important quality attribute that affect the quality of software. There are four factors that affect the maintainability of software which are: analyzability, changeability, stability, and testability. Open source software OSS developed by collaborative work done by volunteers through around the world with different management styles. Open source code is updated and modified all the time from the first release. Therefore, there is a need to measure the quality and specifically the maintainability of such code. This paper discusses the maintainability for the three domains of the open source software. The domains are: education, business and game. Moreover, to observe the most effective metrics that directly affects the maintainability of software. Analysis of the results demonstrates that OSS in the education domain is the most maintainable code and cl_stat number of executable statements metric has the highest degree of influence on the calculation of maintenance in all three domains.

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评估开源软件的可维护性:一个案例研究

可维护性是影响软件质量的最重要的质量属性之一。影响软件可维护性的因素有四个:可分析性、可变性、稳定性和可测试性。开源软件是由世界各地的志愿者以不同的管理风格共同开发的OSS。开源代码从第一个版本开始就一直在更新和修改。因此，有必要度量这些代码的质量，特别是可维护性。本文讨论了开源软件的三个领域的可维护性。这些领域是:教育、商业和游戏。此外，观察直接影响软件可维护性的最有效的度量。分析结果表明，教育领域的OSS是最易维护的代码，而cl_stat可执行语句数度量对所有三个领域的维护计算的影响程度最高。

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International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes Computer Science-Software

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. This wide area entails many intriguing question and facets, including the special development process performed by a large number of geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and also economic and legal issues. Beyond this topic, open source software is an example of a highly distributed innovation process led by the users. Therefore, many aspects have relevance beyond the realm of software and its development. In this tradition, IJOSSP also publishes papers on these topics. IJOSSP is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research and applying a multitude of research approaches.