Software maintenance management strategies: Observations from the field

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 365-378

  Stark, George E ^a   Oman, Paul W ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance management; Maintenance scheduling; Maintenance staffing; Maintenance strategies

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING;

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031273249     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199711/12)9:6<365::aid-smr160>3.3.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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