An Authoritative Method Using Fuzzy Logic to Evaluate Maintainability Index and Utilizability of Software

An Authoritative Method Using Fuzzy Logic to Evaluate Maintainability Index and Utilizability of Software

Yenduri Gokul Madhwaraj Kango Gopal

Research scholar, Department of Information Technology, VFSTR Deemed to be University, Vadlamudi, Guntur-AP, India 

Professor, Department of Information Technology, VFSTR Deemed to be University, Vadlamudi, Guntur-AP, India 

Corresponding Author Email: 
yenduri.gokul@gmail.com, drkgm_it@vignanuniversity.org
Page: 
566-580
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DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18280/ama_b.600304
Received: 
26 December 2017
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Accepted: 
3 January 2018
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OPEN ACCESS

Abstract: 

Maintainability and Usability are developing software quality properties, which assume a key part in deciding the nature of a product framework. Directly, little research exertion has been committed to estimation of Maintainability and ease of use of protest arranged software framework either subjectively or quantitatively by utilizing fuzzy parts of both the factor. All the more essentially, neither any fuzzy model exists for measuring above quality components nor does a particular model presents noteworthy rules in such manner. This proposed work makes a commitment to the field of software quality and its maintenance by showing object-arranged measurements for measuring practicality and ease of use and the time factor reduction and the maintenance cost. The protest arranged measurements have an immediate association with quality elements and they can be utilized as indicators of the practicality and convenience of question situated software frameworks productively. The proposed work formally characterizes question arranged measurements remembering that Maintainability and ease of use for the most part affect on software quality. It additionally proposes model and interesting estimation techniques to assess Maintainability and ease of use of protest arranged framework. The measure of exertion expected to keep up a product framework is identified with the specialized nature of the source code of that framework. The ISO 9126 model for programming item quality perceives viability as one of the 6 principle attributes of programming item quality, with versatility, variability, dependability, and testability as sub characteristics of viability. Astoundingly, ISO 9126 does not give a consensual arrangement of measures for assessing practicality based on a framework's source code. Then again, the Maintainability Index has been proposed to compute a solitary number that communicates the practicality of a framework. To expand nature of a product, to oversee programming more effective and to diminish cost of the product, practicality, viability estimation and practicality assessment models have been proposed. In any case, the down to earth utilization of these models in programming building devices and practice stayed minimal because of their impediments or dangers to legitimacy. In the proposed technique We have utilized fuzzy rationale for measuring the product Maintainability. Protest situated measurements have been utilized as info factors in a fuzzy surmising motor. Fuzzy approach in blend with file layered strategy is utilized as a part of the estimation of ease of use of question situated software framework. Utilizing instrument robotization, the estimations of question situated measurements were acquired. A question arranged quality model additionally has been proposed.

Keywords: 

Software, Maintainability, Utilizability, Fuzzy logic

1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Maintainability Index
4. Maintainability Evaluation
5. Results
6. Conclusion
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