Basic concepts of software maintenance

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1CECAM 2008 Developer School : Software maintenance 1 Basic concepts of software maintenance X. GonzeUniversité Catholique de Louvain CECAM Lyon February 2008 CECAM 2008 Developer School : Software maintenance 2 Software engineering ... for physicistsOur expertise ... is NOT software engineering !What is software engineering ? Not the fact of switching from FORTRAN to C++... !! A human science : e.g. How to improve the developer'sproductivity ? ( similarly to machine productivity) Potentially very important to us ... Compare with hardware evolution : “No single softwareengineering development will produce an order-of-magnitude improvement in programming productivity withinten years” F. Brooks

• documentation - rules
• changes repair design
• a.a. takang
• large team
• software maintenance
• system design
• changes
• documentation
• system