Practical Software Maintenance: Best Practices for Managing Your Software Investment

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471170011 ISBN 13: 9780471170013

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

The amount of time and expense spent debugging, customizing, updating, and maintaining software far outstrips the amount spent buying it. This book provides a simple and straightforward introduction to software maintenance activities that work. It is the first book to cover software transition--the process of moving the product from developer to maintainer. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on software maintenance, it draws on real world case studies to explore basic do's and don'ts, IEEE and ISO requirements, organizational issues, and the often sticky issue of metrics. Other topics addressed include object-oriented software and client/server software, corporate education and training programs, creative cost controls, and more.

From the Back Cover:

A complete insider's guide to software maintenance strategy
Authored by one of the world's foremost experts on software maintenance, this handy guide to software maintenance translates a great deal of theory into practical guidelines for daily operations. In a book packed with helpful real-world examples, maintenance do's and don'ts, and rules of thumb, Tom Pigoski covers all the bases, including:
* Debugging, updating, customizing, interfacing, and integrating software
* Software maintenance metrics
* Designing for maintainability
* Object-oriented and client/server software maintenance
* The potential impact of the ISO standards
* The hidden costs of creative cost controls
* How to establish a corporate education and training program.
"One of the most detailed treatments of software maintenance currently in print. . . . This book is a worthwhile addition to the library of any software professional who works on the maintenance of existing computer programs --and that means most of us!" --Roger S. Pressman, PhD R. S. Pressman & Associates, Inc.
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About the Author:

THOMAS M. PIGOSKI is Senior Software Engineer at TECHSOFT, Project Editor and primary author of ISO's proposed International Standard on Software Maintenance, and General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance.