Context: Measurement programs have been around for several decades but have been often misused or misunderstood by managers and developers. This misunderstanding prevented their a...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Lionel C. Briand, Yann-Gaë...
In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
In this paper we present the results of two measurement programs, that were aimed at investigating possible cost drivers for software maintenance. The two measurement programs wer...