1. You Don't Know Jack about Software Maintenance.
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STACHOUR, PAUL and COLLIER-BROWN, DAVID
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SOFTWARE maintenance , *CONTINUITY , *SYSTEMS development , *WIDE area network software , *COMPUTER software , *SOFTWARE engineering - Abstract
The authors discuss how to design software in which maintenance is built into the system. Four approaches to software maintenance are traditional, never, discrete and continuous. Discrete is the present practice involving massive changes at a time or the use of patches. Continuous change, however, is built into the software program in which data structure is designed for expansion and self-identifies as to version. The author mentions that BBN Technologies built continuous controlled change into the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the predecessor to the internet.
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- 2009
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