Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement

by Alain April, Alain Abran

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
ISBN: 0470147075

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Book Description

Software maintenance accounts for 60 - 90% of software life-cycle costs, and unfortunately, very little attention is given to software maintenance education, training, and research. Now, two experts in the field explain how understanding software maintenance, implementing best practices, and improving its processes can help software managers to dramatically cut costs.

Software Maintenance Management explores the domain of software maintenance management and provides road maps for improving software maintenance organizations. It describes full maintenance maturity models organized by levels 1, 2, and 3, which allow for benchmarking and continuous improvement paths. Goals for each key practice area are also provided, and the model presented is fully aligned with the architecture and framework of software development maturity models of CMMI and ISO 15504.

The only authoritative reference to provide a management perspective of software maintenance

Complete with case studies, figures, tables, and graphs, Software Maintenance Management fills the need for a comprehensive and authoritative reference on the subject for maintenance managers, software managers, systems analysts, quality managers, and quality analysts. It alsoserves as a valuable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in softwareengineering, software maintenance, software process improvement, and software benchmarking.

About the Author

Alain April, PhD, is Professor of Software Engineering at Université du Québec (Canada). His research interests include software maintenance, software quality assurance, and multimedia databases. Dr. April has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than twenty years, has contributed to the internal measurement of software of ISO 9126-3, and is an Editor of The Guide to Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) chapters on software maintenance and software quality.

Alain Abran, PhD, is Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at Université du Québec (Canada). Dr. Abran is the Co-Executive Editor of the SWEBOK project. He has been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the International Secretary for ISO/IEC JTC SC7 Software and System Engineering and as co-manager for the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC). Dr. Abran's research interests include software productivity and estimation models, software engineering foundations, software quality, software functional size measurement, software risk management, and software maintenance management.

Customer Reviews

I'm using this book to help to estimate software maintenance. This book focuses on software maintenance exclusively. I am under the impression that I have to go to other sources in order to incorporate into the work breakdown structure the hardware maintenance items.