Improving software maintenance by using agent-based remote maintenance shell

Author

Lovrek, Ignac ; Jezic, Gordan ; Kusek, Mario ; Ljubi, Igor ; Caric, Antun ; Huljenic, Darko ; Desic, Sasa ; Labor, Ozren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun., Zagreb Univ., Croatia

fYear

2003

fDate

22-26 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

440

Lastpage

449

Abstract

The paper deals with a method developed for software maintenance called remote maintenance shell. It allows software installation, modification and verification on the remote target system without suspending its regular operation. The method is based on remote operations performed by mobile agents. The role of remote maintenance shell in software maintenance is elaborated, as well as its architecture. A case study on version replacement of an object-oriented application is included.

Keywords

formal specification; formal verification; mobile agents; object-oriented programming; software architecture; software maintenance; mobile agents; object-oriented application; remote maintenance shell; remote operations; software installation; software maintenance improvement; software modification; software verification; Application software; Computer architecture; Job design; Mobile agents; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software testing; System testing; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2003. ICSM 2003. Proceedings. International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1905-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2003.1235454

Filename

1235454