Abstract
Maintenance is the most important part of software product development. It is a major component of all software development life cycle models (SDLC). Several variables are being used as intermediaries for software systems’ maintainability throughout software development. The goal of this study is to see whether these variables are consistent between themselves and how well they anticipate maintenance efforts at the system stage. The maintenance of software products includes error checking, proper functionality of the system, improving performance, making the system adaptive, and follow up the change request that come from the client side. To perform all these types of actions to enhance the product quality 4 types of maintenance are normally followed Corrective, Preventive, Adaptive, and Perfective maintenance. The maintenance activity is the most time taking activity when change requests come from the client. This paper is explaining the concept of maintenance with an iterative model and its 4 types. Case studies are also discussed in the paper to explain the maintenance activities performed in software organizations and their impact on the product. The performance measures are not aligned with one another. Only the size of the system and its lack of consistency are found to be highly linked to greater maintenance effort. Maintainability measurements, aside from size, may well not accurately indicate additional maintenance effort. Parts of the project must be assessed in the situations where they will be deployed. Conventional factors are being used to indicate problematic places in the code, but improving the worst parts may mistakenly cause further problems throughout the system. Our findings show that local changes must be supported by a system-wide examination.
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Butt, S.A., Melisa, AC., Misra, S. (2022). Software Product Maintenance: A Case Study. In: Saeed, K., Dvorský, J. (eds) Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management. CISIM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13293. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10539-5_6
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