TY  - JOUR
T1  - An Interface Maintainability Measure for Component-Based Software Systems
AU - Baskar, N. AU - Ramani, A.V. AU - Chandrasekar, C. 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
SP  - 503
EP  - 510
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2017.503.510
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2017.503.510
KW  - cognitive weighted response for a class
KW  -maintainability measure
KW  -Component-based software systems
KW  -interface
KW  -class
KW  -component
AB  - Now a days, component-based systems are being used increasingly which have made changes to
build and maintain the systems. In the present technical researcher, each day several numbers of software are
built up and offered in the market but software maintenance measuring is still a big challenge. Maintenance
becomes very difficult if the components are integrated into the system due to source code may be partial or
invisible completely. Several models and metrics are implemented for the software but they did not meet the
need of the component-based software. Among those set of metrics, Response for a Class (RFC) is one of the
metrics which is nothing but the number of methods that can be potentially executed in response to a message
received by an object of a class. In RFC, each function call statement value is considered to be 1. The cognitive
feature is not included in RFC metric which is felt as a major negative aspect of this metric. So, this researcher
proposed a metric for measuring the interface maintenance for the component based software system. The
proposed metric for the maintainability is Cognitive Weighted Response for a Class (CWRFC) metric. The
proposed metric is applied to the computer classification and acquired better results which will help not only
for low maintenance of the component based system but also to reduce the complexity efforts.
ER  -