On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability

Reinhold Plösch; Severin Schürz; Christian Körner

doi:10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.47

On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability

Reinhold Plösch
, Severin Schürz
, Christian Körner

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

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Abstract

The IT-CISQ (Consortium for IT Software Quality) standard that was initiated and is driven by an OMG (Object Management Group) consortium claims to provide operational measures for a number of quality criteria of the ISO / IEC 25010 quality standard. In order to show the applicability of the IT-CISQ standard, we built a tool that provides automatic measures for the maintainability related measures of the IT-CISQ standard. We evaluated five Java open source projects with our IT-CISQ quality model and compared these results with the result of an expert-centered evaluation of the maintainability of these projects. The study shows that the IT-CISQ quality model for maintainability is well suited as a predictor for the quality criterion maintainability. Compared to our more comprehensive EMISQ (Expert Centered Method for Internal Software Quality) quality model (165 EMISQ measures vs. 18 IT-CISQ measures), the IT-CISQ quality model yields a similar order of projects. However, it is of course less suitable to give good guidance about improving aspects, as our more comprehensive EMISQ quality model includes considerably more maintainability related aspects of software. Furthermore, the tooling provided by us is innovative and could directly be used in practice by itself.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), IEEE Computer Society, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-5, 2015
Editors	Gang Huang, Jingwei Yang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Pao-Ann Hsiung, Carl K. Chang, William Chu, Ivica Crnkovic
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	326-334
Number of pages	9
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467365635
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.47
Publication status	Published - Jun 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	0730-3157

Fields of science

202005 Computer architecture
202017 Embedded systems
102 Computer Sciences
102002 Augmented reality
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102022 Software development
202022 Information technology
502032 Quality management
502050 Business informatics

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Management and Innovation

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Plösch, R., Schürz, S., & Körner, C. (2015). On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability. In G. Huang, J. Yang, S. I. Ahamed, P.-A. Hsiung, C. K. Chang, W. Chu, & I. Crnkovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), IEEE Computer Society, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-5, 2015 (Vol. 2, pp. 326-334). Article 7273636 (Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference; Vol. 2). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.47

Plösch, Reinhold ; Schürz, Severin ; Körner, Christian. / On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability. Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), IEEE Computer Society, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-5, 2015. editor / Gang Huang ; Jingwei Yang ; Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed ; Pao-Ann Hsiung ; Carl K. Chang ; William Chu ; Ivica Crnkovic. Vol. 2 IEEE, 2015. pp. 326-334 (Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference).

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Plösch, R, Schürz, S & Körner, C 2015, On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability. in G Huang, J Yang, SI Ahamed, P-A Hsiung, CK Chang, W Chu & I Crnkovic (eds), Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), IEEE Computer Society, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-5, 2015. vol. 2, 7273636, Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference, vol. 2, IEEE, pp. 326-334. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.47

On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability. / Plösch, Reinhold; Schürz, Severin; Körner, Christian.
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Plösch R, Schürz S, Körner C. On the Validity of the IT-CISQ Quality Model for Automatic Measurement of Maintainability. In Huang G, Yang J, Ahamed SI, Hsiung PA, Chang CK, Chu W, Crnkovic I, editors, Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), IEEE Computer Society, Taichung, Taiwan, July 1-5, 2015. Vol. 2. IEEE. 2015. p. 326-334. 7273636. (Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference). doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2015.47

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