An annotated bibliography on software maintenance

Hagemeister, J.R.; Lowther, B.; Oman, Paul; Yu, Xiao; Zhu, W.

doi:10.1145/130840.130852

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“…Thus, the third approach emerged as the primary candidate. The annotated bibliography published by Hagemeister et al (1992) listed references related to software maintenance including several that discussed researcher's attempts at designing a questionnaire which would be completed for a program at the time it is released. These are described in the following paragraphs.…”

Section: What Is Delivery Complexity?mentioning

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“…The working group used the Hagemeister and Oman (1992) spreadsheet as a starting point for building their own tool. That is, we adapted the hierarchical structure of the maintenance attributes and the combination of subjective and objective measures, but we focused the spreadsheet on 'delivery complexity' rather than 'maintainability'.…”

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“…Often the reasons cited for ranking one project as more complex than another include age and criticality of the system, available tools, required staff skills, and a variety of code metrics such as number of interfaces, number of branches, types of data structures and levels of nesting. The question of how to build a single index of complexity has been studied by several researchers (Agresti, 1982;AFOTEC, 1991;Hagemeister and Oman, 1992;Clark and Donald, 1994).…”

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A survey instrument for understanding the complexity of software maintenance

Stark

Oman

1995

J. Softw. Maint: Res. Pract.

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Software maintenance is a multi‐faceted, multidimensional effort that, upon inspection, is larger and more complex than it first seems. At least three components contribute to the complexity of the software maintenance effort: (1) the code and documentation being produced, (2) the process used to manage the maintenance, and (3) the maintenance and target computer system environments. This paper describes the development and use of a simple spreadsheet tool designed to measure the complexity of a software maintenance release. The tool can be used by software maintenance managers to direct their attention at the cost drivers associated with a software maintenance release, to aid in the re‐engineering decision, and to keep track of the degradation or improvement associated with a software system due to maintenance actions or process improvements. The approach has been successful in identifying complex deliveries and identifying components that contributed the greatest to that complexity.

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