Title :
A Model for Measuring Software Understandability
Author :
Lin, Jin-Cherng ; Wu, Kuo-Chiang
Author_Institution :
Tatung University, Taiwan
Abstract :
When programmers try to reuse a software system developed by other programmers, the difficulty of understanding the system limits reuses [1]. It is not easy to measure software understandability because understanding is an internal process of humans. This paper proposes "integral of understandability" as a model for measuring software understandability which can extract first the best value of software understandability from factors with higher weight. In other words, we gave an integrated aspect of measuring software understandability through the literature on the subject.
Keywords :
Computer science; Costs; Documentation; Hardware; Humans; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software quality; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2006. CIT '06. The Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2687-X
DOI :
10.1109/CIT.2006.13
