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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Assessing Architectural Sustainability during Software Evolution using Package-Modularization Metrics

Author 1: Mohsin Shaikh
Author 2: Dilshod Ibarhimov
Author 3: Baqir Zardari

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101277

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 10 Issue 12, 2019.

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Abstract: Sustainability of software architectures is largely dependent on cost-effective evolution and modular architecture. Careful modularization, characterizing proper design of complex system is cognitive and challenging task for insuring improved sustainability. Moreover, failure to modularize the software sys-tems during its evolution phases often results in requiring extra effort towards managing design deterioration and solving unfore-seen inter-dependencies. In this paper, we present an empirical perspective of package-level modularization metrics proposed by Sarkar, Kak and Rama to characterize modularization quality through packages. In particular, we explore impact of these design based modularization metrics on other well known mod-ularity metrics and software quality metrics. Our experimental examination over open source java software systems illustrates that package-level modularization metrics significantly correlate with architectural sustainability measures and quality metrics of software systems.

Keywords: Software architecture; software modularity; soft-ware quality; packages

Mohsin Shaikh, Dilshod Ibarhimov and Baqir Zardari, “Assessing Architectural Sustainability during Software Evolution using Package-Modularization Metrics” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 10(12), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101277

@article{Shaikh2019,
title = {Assessing Architectural Sustainability during Software Evolution using Package-Modularization Metrics},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101277},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101277},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
author = {Mohsin Shaikh and Dilshod Ibarhimov and Baqir Zardari}
}


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