A formal procedure for managing maintenance activities opens a window of opportunity for the IS manager to consider systems as candidates for reverse engineering, reengineering, and restructuring. This article outlines a software maintenance methodology. It discusses development techniques (e.g., the use of CASE tools and standard data definitions) that help to ensure software maintainability a...

In an effort to find out more about the tools, procedures, and techniques project personnel use in their work, the Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Environments Project interviewed personnel in eight software maintenance projects within an agency of the U.S. government. These interviews highlighted problems that we believe are typical of many software maintenance organizations (i.e., ...

Feature location is a commonly occurring problem in software reuse and maintenance. In understanding large software systems, Software Engineers need to locate the different software components that work together to provide a specific end user feature. Because of its importance, this problem has generated much interest among software maintenance researchers and a number of different methods of a...

RCM evolved during the 1950s in the aircraft industry as a result of a number of major reliability studies concerning complex equipment. In particular, the 1960 FAA / Airline Industry Reliability Program Study was initiated to respond to rapidly increasing maintenance costs, poor availability, and concern over the effectiveness of traditional time-based preventive maintenance. This, like severa...

In the engineering and scientific domains software commonly has a long lifespan, lasting decades instead of years. Due to this lifespan, software often outlives the current generation of hardware, and in turn needs to be modified to execute on newer classes of hardware architectures [1]. Supporting developers in this difficult software maintenance activity is very important in order to improve ...

Good maintainability is an essential feature for machines and processes in industry. It promotes, among others, maintenance safety, postmaintenance reliability and cost-effective maintenance by ensuring quick and easy operation and short downtime. Virtual engineering tools provide an effective way for maintainability design already during the design phase. Machine designers may not consider mai...

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Following the great success of previous editions, ATEM2007 is the 4 th edition of the ATEM workshop series. The first two editions were held with WCRE in 2003 and 2004, while the 3 rd one was held with MoDELS 2006. ATEM has always been fo-cused on engineering of language descriptions. In order to cover as many aspects of language descriptions important for greater success and adoption of model-...

In this work, we identified activities relevant to the adaptation of Service Based Applications (SBAs) from existing service engineering approaches as well as activities relevant to the software maintenance process. We then mapped these two sets of activities to a reference life-cycle model from a Large European project. The results highlight the software maintenance techniques that can be reus...

The most important factor in maintaining Web Engineering Information Systems WEIS lifecycle is the reengineering process that in most cases is due to serious problems and hence high maintenance costs; this process must be closely monitored by audit procedures. Once the WEIS was put into production, the maintenance and reengineering considerations started, and the Information System Risk and Qua...