Table of Contents

Part I: The Context to Maintenance: Introduction to the Basic Concepts; The Context to the Basic Concepts; The Maintenance Framework; Fundamentals of Software Change; Limitations and Economic Implications to Software Change; The Maintenance Process; Part II: What Takes Place During Maintenance: Program Understanding; Reverse Engineering; Reuse and Reusability; Testing; Management and Organisational Issues; Part III: Keeping Track of the Maintenance Process: Configuration Management; Maintenance Measures; Part IV: Building Better Systems: Building and Sustaining Maintainability; Maintenance Tools; Part V: Looking to the Future.

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..". an excellent piece of work that comprehensively covers the breadth of software maintenance issues ... the strongest praise I can give is that I intend to use it myself, as a reference to aid my research, and as a textbook the next time I teach maintenance."