Evaluating a Taxonomy of Handover Activities in One Swedish Company

Mira Kajko‐Mattsson, Ahmad Salman Khan, Tommy Tyrberg · 2010

Handing over a software system from development to maintenance is still an under-researched domain. The software community has a hazy insight into its constellation and inherent activities. In this paper, we have evaluated a preliminary version of a taxonomy of handover activities within one Swedish software company. The evaluation is conducted in an in-house handover context only. Despite this, our results provide evidence of its enormous complexity, variability and strong dependency on many other software engineering processes.

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