TOWARDS A MAINTAINABILITY EVALUATION IN SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

Anna Grimán, Luisana Chávez, María Pérez, Luis Mendoza, Kenyer Domínguez

2006

Abstract

Maintainability is an internal quality characteristic that is contemplated by many users and developers, and therefore is deeply related to software architecture. It presents an organization of its components and relation which promote or obstruct different attributes like testability, changeability, and analyzability. As part of a research in progress, this article analyzes and organizes a set of architectural mechanisms that guarantee software maintainability. To propose the architectural mechanisms we decided first to construct an ontology, which helps identify all concepts related to Maintainability and their relationships. Then we decided to focus and specify mechanisms that promote maintainability, also we present a set of scenarios that will explore the presence at the architecture of those concepts previously identified, including the architectural mechanism analyzed. With the products described in this article we have the bases to develop an architectural evaluation method, which is based on maintainability.

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in Harvard Style

Grimán A., Chávez L., Pérez M., Mendoza L. and Domínguez K. (2006). TOWARDS A MAINTAINABILITY EVALUATION IN SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 555-558. DOI: 10.5220/0002462005550558


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Anna Grimán and Luisana Chávez and María Pérez and Luis Mendoza and Kenyer Domínguez},
title={TOWARDS A MAINTAINABILITY EVALUATION IN SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={555-558},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002462005550558},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS A MAINTAINABILITY EVALUATION IN SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Grimán A.
AU - Chávez L.
AU - Pérez M.
AU - Mendoza L.
AU - Domínguez K.
PY - 2006
SP - 555
EP - 558
DO - 10.5220/0002462005550558