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2007

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Predicting Class Life Cycle Maintenance Effort Based On Class Complexity, Lindsey B. Hays Jan 2007

Predicting Class Life Cycle Maintenance Effort Based On Class Complexity, Lindsey B. Hays

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the software industry today many programmers spend countless hours maintaining existing Java programs. The cost of code maintenance affects a company in many ways such as the budget, time management and resources. Making management decisions regarding these issues could be assisted, if maintenance cost of Java classes could be predicted.

The goal of this thesis was to create a new model predicting the maintenance effort based on the Java class complexity. It seems clear the complexity of a Java class can directly relate to the amount of time it will take to perform maintenance on the class.

To develop …