Abstract:
Software maintainability prediction enables
organizations to predict the maintainability of
the software systems and can then help in
reducing the maintenance effort and thus,
reducing the overall cost and time spent on a
software project. Besides, measuring structural
design properties of a software system, such as
coupling, cohesion, or complexity, is a promising
approach towards early quality assessments. To
use such measurement effectively, quality models
are needed that quantitatively describe how these
internal structural properties relate to relevant
external system qualities such as reliability or
maintainability. In this paper, although the
framework of design prediction approach is
proposed which consists of two main phases, we
only focus on a set of object-oriented design
metrics that can be used to evaluate and
correlate object- oriented design maintainability.
