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In most software organizations, the budget for software maintenance is much
larger than for software development. However, there is much less management
attention focus on software maintenance than on software development. This book
illustrates how process improvement models popular with software development
can be applied to software maintainers. In particular, this book presents a new
way of capturing the uniqueness of software maintenance activities in a
model-based process improvement approach. The focus of this book is, therefore,
on the uniqueness of software maintenance activities, on how to assess the
software maintenance using the Software Maintenance Maturity Model (S3m
model) and how to figure out improvement paths.
Alain April, PhD, is Professor of Software Engineering at
Université du Québec (Canada). His research interests include
software maintenance, software quality assurance, and multimedia databases. Dr.
April has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than twenty years,
has contributed to the internal measurement of software of ISO 9126-3, and is
an Editor of The Guide to Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)
chapters on software maintenance and software quality.
Alain Abran, PhD, is Professor and the Director of the Software
Engineering Research Laboratory at Université du Québec (Canada). Dr.
Abran is the Co-Executive Editor of the SWEBOK project. He has been actively
involved in software engineering standardization as the International Secretary
for ISO/IEC JTC SC7 Software and System Engineering and as co-manager for the
Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC). Dr. Abran's
research interests include software productivity and estimation models,
software engineering foundations, software quality, software functional size
measurement, software risk management, and software maintenance management.
314 pages, 6" x 9"
Paperback
ISBN 0-470-14707-5, April
2008
$55.25 Members / $65.00 List
This IEEE
Computer Society - Wiley book is distributed by our partner, John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. and may be purchased online at Wiley.com
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