• DocumentCode
    1089523
  • Title

    How Accurately Do Engineers Predict Software Maintenance Tasks?

  • Author

    Hatton, Les

  • Author_Institution
    Kingston Univ.
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    64
  • Lastpage
    69
  • Abstract
    Research shows considerable overlap among perfective, corrective, and adaptive maintenance tasks in software development projects. A case study involving two recent products provides further empirical evidence of this distribution and sheds light on how well programmers estimate both the type of maintenance necessary and the duration with some significant surprises
  • Keywords
    software maintenance; software development; software maintenance task prediction; Chromium; Glass; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Licenses; Software maintenance; Time measurement; software development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2007.58
  • Filename
    4085625