Software Tools for Software Maintenance

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Abstract:

Software maintenance continues to be among the most critical issues facing all software development organizations. Developers are facing increasing demands for new software applications while at the same time having to devote sizable resources to maintaining existing applications. It seems that software developers organizations will reach steady-state when all available resource are devoted to software maintenance. Increasing the productivity of software developers and increasing the quality of systems produced is certainly a high priority in development organizations however, software maintenance productivity seems to be at least as important but not eagerly addressed. Software maintenance has been reported as containing 70-80 of the total software life cycle costs. In the federal government software maintenance is reported to cost an estimated 5 billion. In a summary of 75 major companies, 53 of the total software related activities is in maintenance. In a survey conducted by IBM, over 80 of data processing resources are allocated to maintenance. Even a small increase in productivity in software maintenance will have a dramatic impact on overall data processing costs.

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
ARMY INST FOR RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES ATLANTA GA
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Pagination:
0056

Security Markings

DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
ASQBG-I-89-001
Monitor Series:
AIRMICS
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_8.2.1_Partner with Governments and Institutions; JCA_8.2_Shape; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_3.2_Engagement; JCA_3_Force Application; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_3.2.1_Kinetic Means
Modernization Areas:
Directed Energy
Communities of Interest:
No COI(s) Identified
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTER PROGRAMS, *DATA PROCESSING, ORGANIZATIONS, PRODUCTIVITY, COSTS, QUALITY, RESOURCES, LIFE CYCLE COSTS, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, MAINTENANCE, DATA MANAGEMENT
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Programming and Software
Keyword(s):
PE62783A
Report Date:
1988 Oct 01