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Correlations and Weights of Maintainability Index (MI) of Open source Linux Kernel Modules

by Mohamed B. Senousy, Tamer Sh. Mazen
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 91 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Mohamed B. Senousy, Tamer Sh. Mazen
10.5120/15894-5052

Mohamed B. Senousy, Tamer Sh. Mazen . Correlations and Weights of Maintainability Index (MI) of Open source Linux Kernel Modules. International Journal of Computer Applications. 91, 7 ( April 2014), 30-37. DOI=10.5120/15894-5052

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author = { Mohamed B. Senousy, Tamer Sh. Mazen },
title = { Correlations and Weights of Maintainability Index (MI) of Open source Linux Kernel Modules },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { April 2014 },
volume = { 91 },
number = { 7 },
month = { April },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 30-37 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume91/number7/15894-5052/ },
doi = { 10.5120/15894-5052 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Tamer Sh. Mazen
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Software development and usage become very important in many aspects of our lives, so that the application of software metrics becomes more important. Software metrics are used to give valuable information for the development of software. This paper focus on the study of the maintainability of an open source operating system "Linux". Computing the relative weight of each maintainability parameter. The research was conducted on Linux Kernel modules (V. 3. 9. 2). The research performed on 837 functions from selected modules to compute a maintainability index "MI" for each function and module. Also calculate the correlation between each parameter for Maintainability Index (MI) with the other parameters and with the MI itself. The parameters of MI are Line of Code (LOC), Cyclomatic Complexity (CC), and Halstead Volume (HV). Practically approved that, first the Line of Code and Cyclomatic Complexity values are distributed normally; but Halstead Volume is distributed uniformly. Secondly, there is an interconnection between Line of Code, Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Volume and Maintainability Index. Finally the most important parameter which affects maintainability index is Line of Code, then Cyclomatic Complexity and lastly the Halstead Volume.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Maintainability Index (MI) Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Correlation coefficient Chi square test

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