Software Quality Model for Maintenance Software Purposes

Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SMmm): the software maintenance process model

Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SM): The software maintenance process model

We address the assessment and improvement of the software maintenance function by proposing improvements to the software maintenance standards and introducing a proposed maturity model for daily software maintenance activities: Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SM). The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of management models to facilitate its evaluation, management, and co...

Software Quality Assurance and Maintenance for Outsourced Software Development

The paper describes the author’s experience, gained during a complex and long outsourcing project. The applied Software Quality Program is presented and some ideas for its improvement are given. The problems of project management, software configuration management and maintenance are clarified. A feasible approach to these problems – both incremental and measurable – has been suggested. In conc...

Software Quality Model Requirements for Software Quality Engineering

Software Quality Engineering is an emerging discipline that is concerned with improving the approach to software quality. It is important that this discipline be firmly rooted in a quality model satisfying its needs. In order to define the needs of this discipline, the meaning of quality is broadly defined by reviewing the literature on the subject. Software Quality Engineering needs a quality ...

Conceptual Model for a Software Maintenance Environment

A conceptual model for a software maintenance method named COMFORM (Configuration Management Formalization for Maintenance) is presented. COMFORM provides guidelines and procedures for carrying out the maintenance process, while establishing a systematic approach for the support of existing software systems. Incremental documentation, the process of building up the software documentation while ...