Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice

Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice

9789812384256 (9812384251), World Scientific Publishing, 2003

Text explores the key issues underpinning software change, and discusses how these issues impact on the implementation of changes to software systems. For software engineers. Hardcover, softcover available.

Readership: Researchers, graduate students and undergraduates in software engineering, programming, information engineering, health informatics and medical informatics; practitioners and industrialists in software development and maintenance.

The purpose of this book is to explore the key issues underpinning software change and to discuss how these issues impact on the implementation of changes to software systems. The motivation for the book came from the need for texts dealing directly with challenges that software engineers face when modifying complex software systems. The extent of this challenge can be seen in the cost of modifying software. This cost can reach 70% of the total life-cycle cost [4, 36, 176]. Software maintenance is recognised as a key area in software engineering [9, 163]. Despite this, many mainstream software engineering courses are biased towards the development of new software systems at the expense of issues surrounding changes to these systems after they become operational [70].

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