Software Maintenance Exercises for a Software Engineering Project Course

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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.

Author(s):
Engle, Charles B. ; Ford, Gary ; Korson, Tim
Author Organization(s):
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA235779
Pagination:
0149

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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):
CMU/SEI-89-EM-1
Contract/Grant Number(s):
F19628-90-C-0003
Monitor Series:
ESD
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.6.1_Assess Compliance with Guidance; JCA_5.6_Monitor; JCA_1.2.2_Exercising; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_5.4.3_Establish Rule Sets; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_1.2.1_Training; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned
Communities of Interest:
Human Systems
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTER PROGRAMS, MAINTENANCE, PROGRAMMERS, REGRESSION ANALYSIS, CODING, TEST AND EVALUATION, INDUSTRIES
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Programming and Software
Keyword(s):
*COMPUTER PROGRAM RELIABILITY, *MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT, *COURSES(EDUCATION), PE63752F
Report Date:
1989 Feb 01