Abstract
For successful software system, maintenance efforts dominate initial development costs by far. However, research and practice still place most of the attention on the initial development phase. In consequence, companies suffer mission-critical systems that are extremely hard to maintain.
To better support practitioners in writing maintainable software, we both need an empirically sound understanding of software properties that help or hinder maintenance and tools that are useful in practice. This requires work that includes both research and practitioner perspectives. In this article, I outline my work towards this goal.
About the author
Dr. Elmar Juergens is co-founder of CQSE GmbH and post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. His PhD thesis on clone detection received the Software Engineering Award of the Ernst-Denert-Stiftung. In 2015 he received a juniorfellowship of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
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