Improving maintenance through development experiences.

Liu, Xiaodong; Yang, Hongji; Zedan, Hussein

Abstract

An empirical comparison is made between present approaches/tools of software maintenance and development. The conclusion is that development technology is more mature in many aspects, such as automation, formalism, confidence, understanding of original systems and application domain. Aims to improve the weakness of maintenance, a unified re-engineering approach is proposed which is based on a wide spectrum language and a set of formal abstraction and transformation rules. A relevant tool is under construction. Keywords : software maintenance and development, re-engineering, wide spectrum language, formal methods, object oriented, time critical systems.

Citation

Liu, X., Yang, H., & Zedan, H. (1998, December). Improving maintenance through development experiences. Presented at WESS '98 - Workshop on Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance

• Conference Name: WESS '98 - Workshop on Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance
• Publication Date: 1998
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 21, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-5
• Book Title: WESS '98 - Workshop on Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance
• Keywords: software maintenance; development; re-engineering; wide spectrum language; formal methods; object oriented; time critical systems
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3228
• Contract Date: Jul 21, 2010