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The impact of incremental delivery on maintenance effort: An analytical study

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Incremental delivery (ID) is a relatively new software development paradigm which advocates that systems be delivered to end-users in usable, useful, and semi-independent chunks (increments). ID differs from the traditional development paradigm, which we call monolithic development (MD), where a software system is considered as a monolithic, inseparable whole delivered as one unit. The purpose of this study is to compare the ID and MD approaches in terms of their maintenance costs through an analytical parametric study. The results of the study provide insight into how incremental delivery can be employed to reduce software maintenance effort and costs.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19015, 76019-0015, Arlington, TX, USA

    Pei Hsia, Chih-Tung Hsu & David Chenho Kung

  2. IBM Corporation, 76299-0001, Roanoke, TX, USA

    Alan T. Yaung

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Hsia, P., Hsu, CT., Kung, D.C., Yaung, A.T. (1995). The impact of incremental delivery on maintenance effort: An analytical study. In: Schäfer, W., Botella, P. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '95. ESEC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 989. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60406-5_27

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