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a composite index of source code maintainability combining volume, cyclomatic complexity, lines of code and comments.

In software engineering, maintainability index refers to a composite index of source code maintainability combining volume, cyclomatic complexity, lines of code and comments. This meaning comes from Coleman (1994) in Computer.[1]

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Coleman, D., Ash, D., Lowther, B., & Oman, P. (1994). Using metrics to evaluate software system maintainability. Computer, 27(8), 44-49. https://doi.org/10.1109/2.303623

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