Software Maintenance Dynamics

[ruchir ratan ruchirratan rediffm]

Posted by ""ruchir ratan"" <ruchirratan@rediffmail.com>
Hi Everybody,

Can anyone suggest or share various factors invovled in software
maintenance process and any mathematical relatonships between
these factors to develop a SD Model. I am focussing only on the
factors that come into picture when the software goes into the
maintenance phase.

If anyone knows any paper, book, or internet source that can
help me with this topic, I would really appreciate it.

AThanks a lot in anticipation of your help,

Regards,
Ruchir RatanPosted by ""ruchir ratan"" <ruchirratan@rediffmail.com>
posting date 2 Feb 2005 07:02:16 -0000

[Mark B. Wallace mbw2 cox.net]

Posted by ""Mark B. Wallace"" <mbw2@cox.net>
> Can anyone suggest or share various factors invovled in software
> maintenance process and any mathematical relatonships between

A starting point is:

http://sunset.usc.edu/research/COCOMOII ... _main.html

A research associate of the Center, Dr. Raymond Madachy, has been
applying SD to software engineering for years.

I'm not sure how much (of COCOMO or Madachy's work) is applicable
to the maintenance phase.

Mark Wallace
Posted by ""Mark B. Wallace"" <mbw2@cox.net>
posting date Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:37:44 -0800

[Alan Graham Alan.Graham paconsul]

Posted by ""Alan Graham"" <Alan.Graham@paconsulting.com>
There's an explicit SD model of software maintenance built and discussed
by a true guru of modern software engineering, Ed Yourdon, in Chapter 4
of his Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer (Prentice-Hall, 1996).

cheers,

Alan
Posted by ""Alan Graham"" <Alan.Graham@paconsulting.com>
posting date Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:21:20 -0500