Integration of a Standard-Based Quality Assessment into the VizzAnalyzer

Abstract: More than half of the total costs in ownership of a software system are maintenance costs. Reverse engineering is becoming more important and complex for huge systems, and tools for reverse engineering are necessary for system evaluation. The ISO/IEC 9126 standard defines software quality and The VizzAnalyzer Framework is a stand-alone tool for analyzing and visualizing large software systems’ structures. In this thesis, we describe the design and implementation of plug-ins for the VizzAnalyzer Framework, a system for reverse engineering, extending their features under the standards of software quality. It has proven to be useful in applying the new features into the VizzAnalyzer Framework being the first tool that includes a software quality model.