Dear CSI subscribers,

 

Below is a request from a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Auckland who is seeking participants in a survey she is undertaking on software maintainability for relational database-driven software applications. If your organisation is involved in developing such applications please consider asking your staff to participate.

 

Best wishes,

 

John Hosking

Director

Centre for Software Innovation

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a PhD Student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and am undertaking research on the topic “Maintainability Prediction for Relational Database-Driven Software Applications”. Maintainability is a very important software quality attribute and its prediction can lead to highly maintainable software applications and thereby, result in reducing the costs incurred during the process of software maintenance.

I cordially invite your company to participate in this research aimed at collecting software professionals’ perspective on what they think impacts software maintainability for relational database-driven software applications. This relates to a software professional’s own experience and does not ask any company specific information that may be confidential. Also, the data provided will be strictly kept confidential and the individual responses of one participant will not be shared with any other participant. However, the collected results will be provided to you upon request.

You are requested to kindly ask your employees to fill out this survey form available at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/survey_2010/. The survey takes on average 30 minutes to fill out and can conveniently be filled (even one section at a time) by returning to it at any time of their convenience.

The results of this survey will indicate the predictors of software maintainability which will then be used to create models of maintainability prediction for relational database-driven software applications. These models will be very useful for software organizations while designing their software applications and allocating resources for software maintenance and are expected to give a competitive advantage by enabling the creation of highly maintainable software applications.

I will be very thankful for your participation and making this research successful.

If you have any queries regarding this research, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best Regards,

 

Mehwish Riaz

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science

The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Email: mria007@aucklanduni.ac.nz