Measuring Quality Improvements After Stimulating Software Quality Awareness Among Developers

Software systems are getting larger and more complex. It takes therefore more time and money to maintain these systems. The maintenance effort is strongly related to the quality of the implementation during the development phase. Providing qualitative numbers to developers about their previous im- plementations could help increase the quality of their next implementation. In this thesis an approach is presented both for gathering internal software qual- ity metrics that are related to a system’s maintainability and also for extracting information from these metrics. The extracted information is then returned as feedback to the development team to give them the ability to improve their source code. This in turn will increase the virtuous circle of improved main- tainability which again results in better software quality overal. This is done via a self-made feedback reporting tool which is described in detail. Three projects have been followed both before and after developers got access to our feedback mechanism. Afterwards, we evaluate the situations.

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Software Quality
Metrics
Awareness

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