publications:
- title: "Standardized Code Quality Benchmarking for Improving Software Maintainability"
  author:
  - name: "Robert Baggen"
    link: "http://www.tuvit.de/english/Home.asp"
  - name: "Katrin Schill"
    link: "http://www.tuvit.de/english/Home.asp"
  - name: "Joost Visser"
    link: "http://www.di.uminho.pt/~joost.visser/"
  year: "2010"
  abstract: "Abstract—We provide an overview of the approach developed by the Software Improvement Group (SIG) for code analysis and quality consulting focused on software maintainability. The approach uses a standardized measurement model based on the ISO/IEC 9126 definition of maintainability and source code metrics. Procedural standardization in evaluation projects further enhances the comparability of results. Individual assessments are stored in a repository that allows any system at hand to be compared to the industry-wide state of the art in code quality and maintainability. When a minimum level of software maintainability is reached, the certification body of TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH (TÜViT) issues a Trusted Product Maintainability certificate for the software product."
  tags:
  - "rule-based"
  - "meta-model"
  - "software product quality"
  - "points-to analysis"
  - "analysis"
  - "source-to-source"
  - "certification"
  - "benchmarking"
  - "ISO/IEC 9126"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "standardization"
  - "systematic-approach"
  - "open-source"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/BaggenSV2010"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "4th International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability (SQM 2010), March 15, 2010, Madrid, Spain"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "BaggenSV2010"