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2002 Technical Reports

Achieving Software Quality Through Heuristic Transformations: Maintainability and Performance

Bill Andreopoulos

Technical Report CS-2002-05

York University

November 2002

Abstract

This report proposes a general framework for evaluating and improving the quality of a software system. To illustrate how the methodology works, the report focuses on the software qualities of maintainability and performance. The Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) framework is adopted to represent and analyse the software qualities of maintainability and performance. Specifically, it analyses the software attributes that affect either quality, the heuristics that can be implemented in source code to achieve either quality, and how the two qualities conflict with each other. Experimental results are discussed to determine the effect of various heuristics on maintainability and performance. A methodology is described for selecting the heuristics that will improve a system's software quality the most.

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