Measurements of Software Maintainability

In this position paper, we describe the research we have just initiated. We will investigate how the “maintainability” of a piece of software changes as time passes and it is being maintained by performing measurements on industrial systems. We present the notion of “maintainability”, our hypotheses, and our approach.

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