This study summarizes results of a study of the internal, structural quality of 288 business applications comprising 108 million lines of code collected from 75 companies in 8 industry segments. Results are presented for measures of security, performance, and changeability. The effect of size on quality is evaluated, and the ability of modularity to reduce the impact of size is suggested.
['Bill Curtis', 'Jay Sappidi', 'Jitendra Subramanyam']
Measuring the Structural Quality of Business Applications