A Methodology for Integrating Maintainability Using Software Metrics

Lewis, John A. and Henry, Sallie M. (1989) A Methodology for Integrating Maintainability Using Software Metrics. Technical Report TR-89-02, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Abstract

Maintainability must be integrated into software early in the development process. But for practical use, the techniques used must be as unobtrusive to the existing software development process as possible. This paper defines a methodology for integrating maintainability into large-scale software and describes an experiment which implemented the methodology into a major commercial software development environment.