Gauging the Differences between Expectation and Systems Support: The Managerial Approach of Adaptive and Perfective Software Maintenance

  • Authors:

  • Ammar Rashid;William Y. C. Wang;Dan Dorner

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COINFO '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Abstract. Differences in the type and nature of tasks insoftware development and maintenance require acareful selection of separate methods and procedures tohandle each task. A great deal of academic andpractical attention has been devoted to studyingmethods of developing software; considerably lessattention has been devoted to studying the managementof software once implemented. Also, current researchhas been focused on the technical side of the softwaremaintenance (e.g., development of models and tools)and completely ignores the managerial side. Thisresearch gap initiates the knowledge niche forresearchers and practitioners to further investigate themanagement issues in the software maintenanceprocess. In this paper, we assimilate previous researchin the software maintenance management area andaddress three major management challenges associatedwith the software maintenance.