Software maintenance management in Tunisia: A statistical study

Author

Arfa, L.B. ; Mili, Ali ; Alaya, Mahdi Ben ; Amor, H.B. ; Ketata, Kh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Fac. of Sci. of Tunis, Belvedere, Tunisia

fYear

1990

fDate

26-29 Nov 1990

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

129

Abstract

A recent statistical study of the various economic aspects of software maintenance management in Tunisia is presented. The study confirms a well-known results, that software maintenance is very time consuming. It was also found that software maintenance escapes the software manager´s notice. In the study, only one in ten managers considers maintenance problems important or very important. In addition, it was shown that the longevity of software applications does not depend on the data processing environment. It is concluded that software maintenance is controllable. Combined with appropriately calibrated cost-estimation techniques, organizational steps developed by the community of software practitioners can be arranged into an integrated policy for software maintenance

Keywords

economic and sociologic effects; software maintenance; Tunisia; cost-estimation; economic aspects; integrated policy; software maintenance management; statistical study; Computer industry; Constraint optimization; Cost function; Data processing; Informatics; Manufacturing industries; North America; Productivity; Programming profession; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1990, Proceedings., Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2091-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1990.131341

Filename

131341