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Towards a Taxonomy of Software Maintainability Pbkp_redictors: A Detailed View

Abstract:

To help practitioners and researchers choose the most suitable pbkp_redictors when selecting from existing Software Product Maintainability Pbkp_rediction (SPMP) models or designing new ones, a literature review of empirical studies on SPMP identified a large number of metrics or factors used as pbkp_redictors of maintainability. However, there is a redundancy and ambiguity in both the naming and meaning of these pbkp_redictors. To address this terminology issue, a one-level taxonomy of the SPMP pbkp_redictors identified in the literature review have been proposed. This paper now proposes a more detailed two-level taxonomy where the first level refers to four categories, namely, software design, software size, quality attributes (or factors), and software process, the second to sub-categories, and pbkp_redictors inventoried from empirical studies on SPMP.