Maintenance support needs for object-oriented software

Author

Crocker, Ronald T. ; Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1-5 Nov 1993

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

69

Abstract

The object-oriented (OO) programming paradigm for developing software systems has become more mainstream in the past several years. Existing research into the use of the OO paradigm is heavily biased toward front-end problems: design, programming languages, and development environments. Lost in this has been support for maintenance of OO system, yet maintenance is 80% of the effort for successful software systems. This paper focuses on software tools that support and enhance the software maintenance effort for OO systems. As the industry matures in its use of OO concepts, systems will move along a spectrum of object-oriented-ness, from non-OO systems at one end to fully OO systems at the other. Each end of the spectrum has different maintenance and tools needs

Keywords

object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; software tools; maintenance support needs; object-oriented programming paradigm; object-oriented software; software tools; tools needs; Books; Computer languages; Computer science; Dynamic programming; Functional programming; Object oriented programming; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1993. COMPSAC 93. Proceedings., Seventeenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4440-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404216

Filename

404216