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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792406103321

Autore

Grubb Penny

Titolo

Software maintenance [[electronic resource] ] : concepts and practice / / Penny Grubb, Armstrong A. Takang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2003

ISBN

1-281-87681-X

9786611876814

981-256-442-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TakangArmstrong A

Disciplina

005.1/6

Soggetti

Software maintenance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Authors' names appear in reversed order in earlier ed.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-339) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; PART I: The Context of Maintenance; 1 Introduction to the Basic Concepts; 2 The Maintenance Framework; 3 Fundamentals of Software Change; 4 Limitations and Economic Implications to Software Change; 5 The Maintenance Process; PART II: What Takes Place During Maintenance; 6 Program Understanding; 7 Reverse Engineering; 8 Reuse and Reusability; 9 Testing; 10 Management and Organisational issues; PART III: Keeping Track of the Maintenance Process; 11 Configuration Management; 12 Maintenance Measures; PART IV: Building Better Systems

13 Building and Sustaining Maintainability14 Maintenance Tools; PART V: Looking to the Future; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Software systems now invade every area of daily living. Yet, we stillstruggle to build systems we can really rely on. If we want to workwith software systems at any level, we need to get to grips with theway software evolves. This book will equip the reader with a soundunderstanding of maintenance and how it affects all levels of thesoftware evolution process.