Software clinic : a different view of software maintenance process

Abstract EN

The increasing size and complexity of many software systems requires a greater emphasis on an effective software maintenance environment.

The activities of the maintenance process should be well viewed and defined.

To support this notion we have proposed a maintenance process view called software clinic in this paper.

This approach has been proposed as an improvement over current ad hoc practices in software maintenance.

In particular, software elinic model has emerged in an attempt to provide an environment for software maintenance process.

The motivation for proposing this metaphor has actually generated from a maintenance project of a PC based application software.

The approach was the ultimate outcome of the experiences gathered from the project, not the other way around.

The project was not conducted to validate and test the so^'are clinic approach in a real life setting rather the maintenance project itself has motivated the author to propose the underlying concepts.

The maintenance process view cited in this paper is considered a conceptual framework derived from a maintenance experience.

The experience on software maintenance has also been described in this paper.

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