With the growing need for quality assessment of entire software systems in the industry, new
issues are emerging. First, because most software quality metrics are defined at the level of …

A popular approach to assessing software maintainability and predicting its evolution
involves collecting and analyzing software metrics. However, metrics are usually defined on …

In this paper, a literature review and classification scheme for selected software engineering
researches is presented. The study shows that an increasing volume of software …

In this paper we are approaching the problem of improving the quality of a software system
design, an important issue during the evolution of object oriented software systems. Starting …

Abstract Measuring Information System Quality (ISQ) becomes crucial for organizations that
claim to be at the leading edge of technology. Therefore, a hierarchical model for ISQ was …

The quality attributes of software architecture (SA) determine whether SA can be easily
understood, tested, modified and so on, so quality-driven architecture evolution is important …

Evaluating Software Quality is a critical and very important aspect of software development.
There are several metrics developed to assess different characteristics of a software system …

We present an evaluation of the TIOBE Quality Indicator (TQI), a methodology by the
company TIOBE that aims to measure software quality. The TQI is based on software …

Software restructuring is of major importance in improving the reusability of a software
system, being a form of perfective maintenance that modifies the structure of the system …

Software evolves over time with the modification, addition and removal of new classes,
methods, functions, dependencies. A consequence is that behavior may not be placed in the …