A quantitative comparison of perfective and corrective software maintenance

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 281-297

  Henry, Joel E ^a   Cain, James P ^a,b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Integrated Systems Consulting Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance process; Productivity; Requirements volatility; Rules of thumb; Software defects; Software process assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE PROCESS ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031222321     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199709/10)9:5<281::aid-smr154>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Chapin, N. (1988) 'Software maintenance life cycle', in Proceedings Conference on Software Maintenance - 1988, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 6-13.
2. Henry, J. E. and Henry, S. (1993) 'Quantitative assessment of the software maintenance process and requirements volatility', in Proceedings CSC '93, ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 346-351.
3. Humphrey, W. S. and Sweet, W. L. (1987) A Method for Assessing the Software Engineering Capability of Contractors, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 116 pp.
4. Ott, L. (1988) Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis, PWS-KENT Publishing Co., Boston, MA, 835 pp.
5. Pressman, R. S. (1987) Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, NY, 852 pp.
6. Swanson, E. B. (1976) The dimensions of maintenance', in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 492-497.
7. Thayer, R. H., Pyster, P. and Wood, R. C. (1982) 'Validating solutions to major problems in software engineering project management', Computer, 15(8), 65-77.