OBJECT ORIENTED MAINTAINABILITY QUANTIFICATION FRAMEWORK

Mohit Kumar; Dr. Abdullah; Dr. Jarnail Singh

Abstract

Quantifying maintainability at an early stage in the software development cycle always support and assists to deliver quality-oriented software within time and cost. It is a very
expensive and error-prone result to precise the design to get better maintainability after
the coding has started. In view of this truth, in this paper we propose a
Maintainability Quantification Framework (MQF^OOD) for object-oriented software especially at the design phase. Developed framework relates the maintainability key factors with object-oriented design properties and also relates design properties with object-oriented design metrics. The proposed framework decreases the gap amongst object-oriented design properties, related metrics, and maintainability. This framework provides a system to develop a model to quantify the maintainability of object-oriented software considering at design phase and makes it possible to deliver a consistent end products within time and cost.

Keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED, Framework, Maintainability, Modularity, Reusability, Analyzability, Modifiability and Testability, Design phase

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M. Kumar, D. Abdullah, D. J. Singh, "OBJECT ORIENTED MAINTAINABILITY QUANTIFICATION FRAMEWORK", International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Management (IJIREM), Vol-7, Issue-6, Page No-88-91, 2020. Available from: