Impact of Historical Software Metric Changes in Predicting Future Maintainability Trends in Open-Source Software Development

Software maintenance is one of the key stages in the software lifecycle and it includes a variety of activities that consume the significant portion of the costs of a software project. Previous research suggest that future software maintainability can be predicted, based on various source code aspec...

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Main Authors: Mitja Gradišnik, Tina Beranič, Sašo Karakatič
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/13/4624