A Comparison of Maintainability Metrics of Two A+ Interpreters

Péter Gál, Ákos Kiss

2013

Abstract

Reports on reimplementing or porting legacy code to modern platforms are numerous in the literature. However, they focus on technical problems, functional equivalence, and performance. In the current paper, our goal is to pull maintainability into focus as well and we argue that it is (at least) of equal importance. We conducted source code analysis on two implementations of the runtime environment of the A+ language and computed maintainability-related metrics for both systems. In this paper, we present the results of their comparison.

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Gál P. and Kiss Á. (2013). A Comparison of Maintainability Metrics of Two A+ Interpreters . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 292-297. DOI: 10.5220/0004597702920297


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@conference{icsoft-ea13,
author={Péter Gál and Ákos Kiss},
title={A Comparison of Maintainability Metrics of Two A+ Interpreters},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={292-297},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004597702920297},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - A Comparison of Maintainability Metrics of Two A+ Interpreters
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Gál P.
AU - Kiss Á.
PY - 2013
SP - 292
EP - 297
DO - 10.5220/0004597702920297