The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign
Thesis (S.M. in System Design and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2010.
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| author | Akaikine, Andrei |
| author2 | Alan D. MacCormack. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/592212019-04-11T13:28:18Z The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign impact of software architecture on product maintenance efforts and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign Akaikine, Andrei Alan D. MacCormack. System Design and Management Program. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division. System Design and Management Program. Engineering Systems Division. System Design and Management Program. Thesis (S.M. in System Design and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-71). This paper reports results of an empirical study that aimed to demonstrate the link between software product design structure and engineers' effort to perform a code modification in the context of a corrective maintenance task. First, this paper reviews the current state of the art in engineering economics of the maintenance phase of software lifecycle. Secondly, a measure of software product complexity suitable to assess maintainability of a software system is developed. This measure is used to analyze the design structure change that happened between two versions of a mature software product. The product selected for this study underwent a significant re-design between two studied versions. Thirdly, an experiment is designed to measure the effort engineers spend designing a code modification associated with a corrective change request. These effort measurements are used to demonstrate the effect of product design complexity on engineers' productivity. It is asserted in the paper that engineer's productivity improvements have a significant economic value and can be used to justify investments into re-design of an existing software product. by Andrei Akaikine. S.M.in System Design and Management 2010-10-12T18:44:30Z 2010-10-12T18:44:30Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59221 666413734 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 72 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Engineering Systems Division. System Design and Management Program. Akaikine, Andrei The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title | The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title_full | The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title_fullStr | The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title_short | The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| title_sort | impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign |
| topic | Engineering Systems Division. System Design and Management Program. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59221 |
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