Software Quality: Views and Purviews

Software reuse can improve software quality with the reducing cost and development time. Systematic reuse plan enhances cohesion and reduces coupling for better testability and maintainability. Software reuse approach can be adopted at the highest extent if relevant software components can be easily searched, adapted and integrated into new system. Large software industries hold their own well managed component libraries containing well tested software component with the project category based classification .Access to these repositories are very limited. Software reuse is facing so many problems and still not so popular. This is due to issues of general access, efficient search and adoption of software component. This paper propose a framework which resolves all of the above issues with providing easy access to components, efficient incremental semantics based search, repository management, versioning of components.

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Impact of Clone Refactoring on External Quality Attributes of Open Source Softwares

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit183833 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 86-94

Author(s):

Himanshi Vashisht ◽

Sanjay Bharadwaj ◽

Sushma Sharma

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Internal Structure ◽

Software Quality ◽

Source Code ◽

Quality Attributes ◽

Software Component ◽

External Quality ◽

Code Refactoring ◽

Observable Behaviour

Code refactoring is a “Process of restructuring an existing source code.”. It also helps in improving the internal structure of the code without really affecting its external behaviour”. It changes a source code in such a way that it does not alter the external behaviour yet still it improves its internal structure. It is a way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. Refactoring is a change made to the internal structure of a software component to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify, without changing the observable behaviour of that software component. Bad smells indicate that there is something wrong in the code that have to refactor. There are different tools that are available to identify and emove these bad smells. A software has two types of quality attributes- Internal and external. In this paper we will study the effect of clone refactoring on software quality attributes.

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