A case study in object-oriented maintenance

Author

Domsch, Matthew L. ; Schach, Stephen R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

346

Lastpage

352

Abstract

Results of a case study in maintenance of an object oriented software application are presented. A software engineer replaced a text based user interface with a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the Microsoft Foundation Classes, adapted the application for the Win32 environment, and corrected faults in the original application. About 94.8% of the maintenance effort was perfective (development of the GUI), 3.2% adaptive and 2.0% corrective. Comparisons are drawn to similar maintenance activities in the literature

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; software reusability; Microsoft Foundation Classes; Win32 environment; case study; graphical user interface; object oriented maintenance; object oriented software application; software engineer; software maintenance activities; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Electrical capacitance tomography; Graphical user interfaces; Operating systems; Personnel; Software maintenance; Software performance; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1999. (ICSM '99) Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Oxford

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0016-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1999.792632

Filename

792632