Software Development Activities Metric to Improve Maintainability of Application Software

The maintenance is very important activity of the software development life cycle. The maximum percentage of design and development cost of software system is going into maintenance to incorporate the change into functional requirement. The increased functional requirements lead towards system configuration changes, which may further increase the cost of development. Every software company want to design and develop the software which is easy to maintain at lower costs. It is better to design and develop more maintainable software to meet this objective; this paper proposed software development activities metric, which will help software developers to develop the easy-to-maintain application software.