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Software Maintenance - A Management Perspective
(Issues, Tools, Techniques, and Trends)
by Phaneendra Nath Vellanky
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Publisher: | Universal Publishers |
Pub date: | 2007 |
Pages: | 591 |
ISBN-10: | 1581129807 |
ISBN-13: | 9781581129809 |
Categories: | Computer Science Technology Computers |
Abstract
Computer systems play an important role in our society. Software drives those systems. Massive investments of time and resources are made in developing and implementing these systems. Maintenance is inevitable. It is hard and costly. Considerable resources are required to keep the systems active and dependable. We cannot maintain software unless maintainability characters are built into the products and processes. There is an urgent need to reinforce software development practices based on quality and reliability principles. Though maintenance is a mini development lifecycle, it has its own problems. Maintenance issues need corresponding tools and techniques to address them. Software professionals are key players in maintenance. While development is an art and science, maintenance is a craft. We need to develop maintenance personnel to master this craft. Technology impact is very high in systems world today. We can no longer conduct business in the way we did before. That calls for reengineering systems and software. Even reengineered software needs maintenance, soon after its implementation. We have to take business knowledge, procedures, and data into the newly reengineered world. Software maintenance people can play an important role in this migration process. Software technology is moving into global and distributed networking environments. Client/server systems and object-orientation are on their way. Massively parallel processing systems and networking resources are changing database services into corporate data warehouses. Software engineering environments, rapid application development tools are changing the way we used to develop and maintain software. Software maintenance is moving from code maintenance to design maintenance, even onto specification maintenance. Modifications today are made at specification level, regenating the software components, testing and integrating them with the system. Eventually software maintenance has to manage the evolution and evolutionary characteristics of software systems. Software professionals have to maintain not only the software, but the momentum of change in systems and software.In this study, we observe various issues, tools and techniques, and the emerging trends in software technology with particular reference to maintenance. We are not searching for specific solutions. We are identifying issues and finding ways to manage them, live with them, and control their negative impact.
About the Author
Dr. Phaneendra graduated with a Physics degree from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, in 1972 and pursued post-graduate work in Information Systems at IIM Ahmedabad. He earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in Systems Management from Pacific Western University, Los Angeles. He has been an active software professional working with Information Systems in many organizations around the world for the past 35 years - with IIT/Madras, EIL, NCR, Abu Dhabi government, Oracle, KPMG and BearingPoint.
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