DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2017.V9.1101
The Impact of Reusing Open-Source Software Model in Software Maintenance
Abstract—Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming very popular and using OSS in maintenance activities has become one of the OSS important issues. Researches in the area of reuse-based maintenance using OOS are rare. The attributes and metrics of OSS maintenance processes are identified depending on literature study. We have proposed a maintenance framework model for reusing of OSS applications in software maintenance, because there are no well-specified guidelines to follow for reuse-based maintenance using OOS. We have tried to shorten the gap between the change request and the reuse-based maintenance using OOS. The paper also shows how to analyze OOS modularity using functional points.
Index Terms—Open-source software, maintenance process models, reuse-base maintenance, OSS customization.
Nedhal A. Al-Saiyd is with the Faculty of Computer Science, Applied Science University, Amman Jordan (e-mail: nedhal_alsaiyd@asu.edu.jo, nedhal_alsaiyd@yahoo.com).
Cite:Nedhal A. Al-Saiyd, "The Impact of Reusing Open-Source Software Model in Software Maintenance," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 6-10, 2017.