Software change information for maintenance management

Author

Cooper, Simon D. ; Munro, Malcolm

Author_Institution

Centre for Software Maintenance, Durham Univ., UK

fYear

1989

fDate

16-19 Oct 1989

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

287

Abstract

Proper management is an important factor in reducing the cost of software maintenance. Until now, well practiced and proven methods of management could not be applied to software maintenance due to the lack of visibility of the tasks and their outcomes. Increased visibility and predictive methods are required if the maintenance of large systems is to be brought under proper control. SCIMM (software change information for maintenance management) is a prototype system under development to help in this area. SCIMM stores information about requests for changes and changes made to software systems, with a view to easy access and retrieval of data and the provision of analysis to aid managers in prediction and planning

Keywords

DP management; software engineering; SCIMM; easy access; large systems; maintenance management; managers; planning; predictive methods; prototype system; retrieval; software change information; software maintenance; software systems; visibility; Costs; Fires; Information analysis; Information management; Information retrieval; Preventive maintenance; Software development management; Software maintenance; Software prototyping; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1989., Proceedings., Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1965-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1989.65222

Filename

65222