Documenting Maintenance Tasks Using Maintenance Patterns

  • Authors:
  • Imed Hammouda;Maarit Harsu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSMR '04 Proceedings of the Eighth Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A common problem in software maintenance is the lackof documentation required for carrying out the maintenancetasks. Both expected and unexpected maintenance tasks useand produce important information, which is not systematicallyrecorded during the evolution of a system. As a result,maintenance becomes unnecessarily hard. In this paper,we suggest the use of maintenance patterns to record informationabout maintenance tasks. Maintenance patternsare organized collections of software elements relevant fora particular maintenance concern. Such a pattern can beexploited for advanced tool support where the tool keepstrack and guides the system developer step by step througha maintenance procedure.