The paper that follows was submitted to satisfy the requirements of DISS 725 Spring 2001 – System Development: Research Paper 3. Software maintenance is recognized as an important part of the software development life cycle. Maintenance systems are integral in achieving control of the total

Program slicing, introduced by Weiser, is known to help programmers in understanding foreign code and in debugging. We apply program slicing to the maintenance problem by extending the notion of a program slice (that originally required both a variable and line number) to a decomposition slice

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Abstract-A state of software maintenance survey is presented, in-dicating the incongruity of the simultaneous existence of importance and neglect in this field. An overview is given of selected developments and activities covering the following topics: • The "Maintenance Problem

this paper, an overview is given of some of the evidence, as it was presented at the 1998 International Conference on Software Maintenance [8]. Being the main international conference on software maintenance, we believe we can assume that the proceedings of that conference contain a fair

This paper presents a summary of the PhD thesis `Perspectives on Improving Software Maintenance'. The research described in this thesis investigates process improvement of software maintenance from two perspectives: measurement-based improvement and maturity-based improvement. 1.

This paper recognizes the use of virtual communities for software maintenance. On the basis of an empirical study of a game community it is suggested that virtual communities can be deployed for the different types of software maintenance – software fault repair, software adaptation and software

to the organization responsible for assembling the system, traditional software maintenance processes may need to be modified or replaced. This paper explores what software maintenance technologies will be needed in order to successfully maintain component-based systems. We also explore the theory that maintenance

of Durham. For the past fourteen years he has worked on methods and tools for program comprehension and reverse engineering, based on formal transformation techniques. He is a founding co-Director of the Centre for Software Maintenance at Durham; as a consequence of an expansion in size and scope, this has