Title :
The state of documentation practice within corrective maintenance
Author :
Kajko-Mattsson, Mira
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Sci., Stockholm Univ./R. Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
Consistent, correct and complete documentation is an important vehicle for the maintainer to gain understanding of a software system, to ease the learning and/or relearning processes, and to make the system more maintainable. Former studies have shown that documentation is one of the most neglected process issues within software engineering today. The authors check the current state of documentation practice within corrective maintenance in Sweden
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software maintenance; system documentation; Sweden; corrective maintenance; documentation practice; process issues; relearning processes; software engineering; software system understanding; Application software; Computer industry; Costs; Documentation; Laboratories; Maintenance engineering; Power engineering and energy; Software maintenance; Software systems; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1189-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.2001.972748
