Management Aspects of Software Maintenance.
Bob Henderson, Brian Sullivan · Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) · 1984
The Federal government depends upon software systems to fulfill its mission. These software systems must be maintained and improved to continue to meet the growing demands placed on them. The process of software maintenance and improvement may be called software evolution. The software manager must be educated in the complex nature of software maintenance to be able to properly evaluate and manage the software maintenance effort. In this thesis, the authors explore software maintenance from a management perspective, highlighting topics of critical importance. These topics include forecasting software maintenance, estimating the resources required to perform software maintenance, managing maintenance personnel and effectively utilizing software tools. The synthesis of these topics forms a managerial paradigm for understanding the evolutionary nature of software maintenance. Originator-supplied keywords include: Software maintenance, Software management, Software cost estimating, and Software tools.