The impact of usage of post object-oriented technologies on defect reduction in software maintenance

doi:10.26565/2304-6201-2019-41-06

Kostyantin Anatolyevich Nagornyi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5948-3682
Iryna Olegivna Martinkus http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4629-6583
Mykola Vyacheslavovych Tkachuk http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0852-1081

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2304-6201-2019-41-06

Keywords: post object-oriented technology, crosscutting functionality, software, defect, maintenance, metric

Abstract

The article is dedicated to software quality improvement research within the maintenance phase based on post-object-oriented technologies. An important problem of the maintenance phase is surveyed, namely, the crosscutting functionality problem. Mechanisms of post-object-oriented technologies have been reviewed and basic tasks to be resolved have been formulated in order to reach the final goal of the research: defect reduction during the maintenance phase. The post object-oriented technologies utilization framework for software quality improvement based on a collection of 4 heuristic assumptions has been introduced. The conceptual scheme of the framework has been presented. An applied 2-steps procedure for defect reduction assessment based on quantitative crosscutting-functionality and defect metrics has been described. Twelve results of the experiments concerning calculation of the residual defect number have been presented and analyzed.

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