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Polymorphism based Maintenance Prediction Scheme using Design Complexity Metrics
Abstract
The Object-Oriented paradigm has become
increasingly popular in recent years. Researchers agree that, althoughmaintenance may turn out to be easier for Object-Oriented systems, itis unlikely that the maintenance burden will completely disappear.One approach to controlling software maintenance costs is theutilization of software metrics during the development phase, to helpidentify potential problem areas. Many new metrics have beenproposed for Object-Oriented systems.The purpose of this work is to apply three existing Object-Oriented design complexity metrics and, specifically, to assess theirability to predict maintenance time for the polymorphism process.This research reports the results of validating three metrics,Interaction Level (IL), Interface Size (IS), and Operation ArgumentComplexity (OAC).
This system is designed to estimate maintenance time for the
software’s that are developed by using java. A controlled experimentwas conducted to investigate the effect of design complexity (asmeasured by the above metrics) on maintenance time. Each of thethree metrics by itself was found to be useful in the experiment inpredicting maintenance performance.
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