Assessing Massive Maintenance Processes: An Empirical Study

  • Authors:

  • Andrea de Lucia;Antonello Pannella;Silvio Stefanucci;Eugenio Pompella

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Sannio;University of Sannio;University of Sannio;EDS Italia Software S.p.A.

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Massive adaptive maintenance differs from ordinary adaptive maintenance in the size and scope of the intervention. Generally, the reason for massive adaptive maintenance interventions derives from the rise of new requirements, as in the case of the introduction of the EURO currency, or from the invalidation of assumptions made at development time, as in the case of the Y2K problem.We present an empirical study from the experience of a major international software enterprise in conducting massive adaptive maintenance projects with a close deadline. The adopted process entails the decomposition of the application portfolio into loosely coupled work-packets that can be independently and incrementally worked out by teams distributed on different sites.