The practical guide to structured systems design: 2nd edition
The practical guide to structured systems design: 2nd edition
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Software Maintenance Management
Software Maintenance Management
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Salvaging your software asset: (tools based maintenance)
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
Productivity in software maintenance
AFIPS '81 Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference
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This paper discusses some of the problems that occur in dealing with inherited software and some of the basic procedures necessary to manage successfully a data processing department or group that is converting and/or maintaining software that has been imposed on them and that they neither designed nor implemented. A significant constraint is the impossibility of contacting the author(s) for guidance and help. The two situations described are very different, yet they share some problems. The first involves an engineering company with a relatively scientific, real-time application---the design of a security system for a nuclear power plant. The second is a real estate management company with fairly typical business applications. This paper does not hope to provide all the answers, but instead to help raise some of the questions that arise when dealing with inherited software.