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Open source software development should strive for even greater code maintainability
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Volume 47 ,  Issue 10  (October 2004) table of contents
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Pages: 83 - 87  
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Ioannis Samoladas  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ioannis Stamelos  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Lefteris Angelis  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Apostolos Oikonomou  Imperial University, London, U.K.
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

A study of almost six million lines of code tracks how freely accessible source code holds up against time and multiple iterations.


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Liguo Yu, Self-organization process in open-source software: An empirical study, Information and Software Technology, v.50 n.5, p.361-374, April, 2008
Ying Zhou , Joseph Davis, Open source software reliability model: an empirical approach, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.30 n.4, July 2005
Diomidis Spinellis, A tale of four kernels, Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering, May 10-18, 2008, Leipzig, Germany

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.8 Metrics
          Subjects: Process metrics
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Software quality assurance (SQA)


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This paper reports on the measurement of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Maintainability Index (MI) for five open source software (OSS) projects. MI is an averaging measure of code commenting, complexity, and size at the level of a modu  more...

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Lefteris Angelis: colleagues
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