Towards an ontology of software maintenance
Barbara Ann Kitchenham, Guilherme Horta Travassos, A. von Mayrhauser, Frank Niessink, Norman F. Schneidewind, Janice Singer, Shingo Takada, Risto Vehvilainen, Hongji Yang · Journal of Software Maintenance Research and Practice · 1999
We suggest that empirical studies of maintenance are difficult to understand unless the context of the study is fully defined. We developed a preliminary ontology to identify a number of factors that influence maintenance. The purpose of the ontology is to identify factors that would affect the results of empirical studies. We present the ontology in the form of a UML model. Using the maintenance factors included in the ontology, we define two common maintenance scenarios and consider the industrial issues associated with them. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.