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A step towards software preventive maintenance

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Yogesh Singh,

Bindu GoelAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 32, Issue 4

Pages 10 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281432

Published: 01 July 2007 Publication History

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In a world interwoven economically, increasing dependence on critical software applications either in transaction processing (banking, Government services etc) or manufacturing automation (automobiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals) has accentuated the economic impact aging software can have. Software with increased usage operating in unforeseen conditions at throughput much higher then initial expectations can degrade fast leading to higher altered form and dramatic drop in performance indicators. In the current paper we have tried to analyse the issues governing software maintenance and how preventive maintenance which is still considered a very evolving field in the context of software engineering can help the software product age usefully. We have also attempted to address the above in the essence of how it is done for hardware preventive maintenance which is a better understood and commercially accepted concept. Finally we suggest model for the preventive maintenance integrated within software life cycle.

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A step towards software preventive maintenance
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 32, Issue 4

July 2007

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DOI:10.1145/1281421

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