In the classical approach to determine how many spare parts to stock, the spare parts shortage costs or the minimum fill rate are a key factor. A difficulty with this approach lies in the estimation of these shortage costs or the determination of appropriate minimum fill rates. In an attempt to overcome this problem, we propose to use the data gathered in reliability centered maintenance studie...

-From the preliminary stage of software engineering, selection of appropriate enforcement of standards remained a challenge for stakeholders during entire cycle of software development, but it can lead to reduce the efforts desired for software maintenance phase. Corrective maintenance is the reactive modification of a software product performed after delivery to correct discovered faults. Stud...

Theme and goals Traditionally, in the software engineering field, a lot of effort is dedicated to design/model, project, and implement software. In fact the importance of designing a robust and well written software system is known and recognized by the industry and the scientific community. However, the " activities " related to general software maintenance (including re-engineering and revers...

GRACE is a large-scale diagramming tool constructed with the aid of automated tools from the Design Maintenance System (DMS ). Diagramming tools as a component of meta-case tools are common in the development of new software engineering projects. The design and development of GRACE addresses the development of a large-scale diagramming tool for the software maintenance area. The nature of legac...

Most research done to date on software maintenance has been focused mainly on the evolution of legacy systems based on obsolete technologies. However, the use of more recent yet evolving technologies, like component-based techniques, also raise various issues about software comprehension and evolution. In particular, current industrial-strength component models like COM are based on many techni...

The cost of maintenance is too high in mining industry to ignore. This is mainly due to poor understanding of the maintenance process which is greatly influenced by the reliability characteristics of the operating system. The paper introduces an approach for maintenance scheduling of a mining system based on reliability analysis which is divided into two parts. The first part introduces a metho...

There is no software engineering crisis. In order to determine what is meant by the phrase “software engineering crisis,” it is informative to define both the term crisis and the term software engineering. We define crisis to mean a “crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.” [1] While not part of the definition, the usual connotation of a crisis further implies an impending disa...

Requirements engineering and software reliability engineering both involve model building related to the usage of the intended system; requirements models and test case models respectively are built. Use case modelling for requirements engineering and operational profile testing for software reliability engineering are techniques which are evolving into software engineering practice. In this pa...

functional foods have a large and growing global market and are regarded as one of the most actively researched areas of food science. the growth in popularity of functional foods is attributed to the phenomena of consumer health care, increasing health awareness and knowledge in the many benefits of functional foods. common benefits of functional foods include reduction of disease, health main...

Software engineering typically requires more effort in maintenance than in development time. As such, software engineering education needs to actively include software evolution. Teaching software evolution to undergraduate students usually includes the theoretical aspects, but doesn’t normally include the actual implementation. This paper describes the practice of teaching software evolution t...