Multicriteria evaluation of software maintenance
(1999) 15th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies — Location: Beijing
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- Authors
Meskens, Nadine 
- Abstract
- Software maintenance activities are a heavy burden for many firms. Moreover, the increase in maintenance costs is due to the degradation of the program's intrinsic quality. The key to reducing these maintenance costs is to apply software renovation tools and methodologies which will improve the quality of programs. This paper discusses the construction of a quality model that can highlight outlying software components that might cause potential quality problems, and that can recommend a set of actions to be undertaken in order to improve the software quality (the program has to be formatted, restructured,...). The problem of evaluation of the quality of programs is formulated as a multi-attribute sorting problem and consists of assigning each program to an appropriate pre-defined category. We have tested three different approaches: multivariate statistical methods, multicriteria decision aid methodology and rough set on 74 programs written in Cobol provided by two Belgian companies.
- Affiliations
Louvain School of Management Accounting & Finance
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Meskens, N., & Lebon, F. (1999). Multicriteria evaluation of software maintenance. 15th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Beijing. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/129565