The accurate maintainability prediction of relational database-driven software applications can improve the management of projects relating to these applications, thus benefitting software organisations. This paper gives an up-to-date account of the state of practice in maintainability prediction for relational database-driven software applications and provides a baseline for conducting further research in this area. The research involved conducting twelve semi-structured interviews with software professionals, which were then analysed using content analysis with the help of NVivo. The results provide both an account of the current state of practice in that area and also a list of potential maintainability predictors for relational database-driven software applications. These predictors relate to database schema, front-end application, and the interaction of database schema with the front-end application. These results provide the basis for further work involving the proposal and empirical validation of maintainability prediction models for relational database-driven software applications.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Research Methodology 3.1. Semi-Structured Interviews 3.2. Data Source 3.3. Interview Procedure 3.4. Data Analysis 4. Results Informed by Industrial Practice 4.1. Perception of Maintainability 4.2. Should Applications be Maintainable? 4.3. Practical Experience with Maintainability Prediction 4.4. Benefits of Predicting Maintainability 4.5. Is Maintainability Predicted in Practice? 4.6. Maintainability Measures 4.7. Is There a Difference between Maintainability for Relational Database-Driven Applications and Applications that do not have any Back-End Database? 4.8. Factors to be Considered for Predicting the Maintainability of Relational Database-Driven Software Applications 5. Discussion 6. Conclusions References
보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
간기
월간
pISSN
1738-9984
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.5 No.2