Software Evolution: A Software Maintenance Challenge

by Lowell Jay Arthur

Offering the best, most productive way to maintain computer software, this book covers the three distinct types of corrective (fixing defects), adaptive, (enhancements), and perfective (improving software quality). Perfective maintenance, which has received little mention elsewhere, offers a chance to identify high-cost software for restructuring or rewriting; included here are step-by-step procedures to identify and restructure these problem programs. The book is organized in the order that maintenance activities normally occur in a scheduled release. Contains many examples, bullet lists, and information mapping to highlight key points.

272 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1988