SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE
Concepts and Practice
(Second Edition)
by Penny Grubb (University of Hull, UK) & Armstrong A Takang (Software Systems Consultant, USA)
Software systems now invade every area of daily living. Yet, we still struggle to build systems we can really rely on. If we want to work with software systems at any level, we need to get to grips with the way software evolves. This book will equip the reader with a sound understanding of maintenance and how it affects all levels of the software evolution process.
Contents:
- Part I: The Context of Maintenance:
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Introduction to the Basic Concepts
- The Maintenance Framework
- Fundamentals of Software Change
- Limitations and Economic Implications to Software Change
- The Maintenance Process
- Part II: What Takes Place During Maintenance:
- Program Understanding
- Reverse Engineering
- Reuse and Reusability
- Testing
- Management and Organisational Issues
- Part III: Keeping Track of the Maintenance Process:
- Configuration Management
- Maintenance Measures
- Part IV: Building Better Systems:
- Building and Sustaining Maintainability
- Maintenance Tools
- Part V: Looking to the Future
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Readership: Researchers, graduate students and undergraduates in
software engineering, programming, information engineering, healthinformatics and medical informatics; practitioners and industrialistsin software development and maintenance.
Review of First Edition
"... an excellent piece of work that comprehensively covers the breadth of software maintenance issues ... the strongest praise I can give is that I intend to use it myself, as a reference to aid my research, and as a textbook the next time I teach maintenance."
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