Software Evolution: A Software Maintenance Challenge - Softcover

Arthur, Lowell Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471628719 ISBN 13: 9780471628712

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1988

Synopsis

Offering guidelines to the maintenance of computer software, this book covers the three distinct types: corrective (fixing defects), adaptive (enhancements) and perfective (improving software quality). Perfective maintenance offers a chance to identify high-cost software for restructuring or rewriting. Also included here are step-by-step procedures which identify and restructure these problem programs. The book is organized in the order that maintenance activities normally occur in a scheduled release. Many examples are contained, including bullet lists.

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From the Author

Don't Let Your Software Become Extinct!
Once delivered, software must grow and evolve to fit the ever changing needs of the users. Two-thirds of an application's life cycle occurs in maintenance. Why not learn how to do it well? Most application software changes by mutation rather than useful evolution. Software doesn't release to the user, it escapes. To take full advantage of your software portfolio, you have to stop reinventing applications and start carefully crafted, genetic reengineering of existing systems to fulfill upcoming needs. Software Evolution will show you how to maintain software in the most effective and efficient way. Discover the power of Software Evolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471628719
• ISBN 13: 9780471628712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272