Accession Number:

ADA235779

Title:

Software Maintenance Exercises for a Software Engineering Project Course

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST

Personal Author(s):

• Engle, Charles B.
• Ford, Gary
• Korson, Tim

Report Date:

1989-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

149.0

Abstract:

Software maintenance is an important task in the software industry and thus an important part of the education of a software engineer. It has been neglected in education, partly because of the difficulty of preparing a software system upon which maintenance can be performed. This report provides an operational software system of 10,000 lines of Ada and several exercises based on that system. Concepts such as configuration management, regression testing, code reviews, and stepwise abstraction can be taught with these exercises.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• MAINTENANCE
• PROGRAMMERS
• REGRESSION ANALYSIS
• CODING
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• INDUSTRIES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE