Legacy System Maintainability is a measure of the extent to which a legacy software system can be modified, extended, or corrected with minimal effort, cost, and risk, distinguishing it from general software maintainability by its focus on systems constrained by outdated technologies, inadequate documentation, and accumulated technical debt.
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Leveraging legacy system dollars for e-business
L. Erlikh · IT Professional · 2000 · 401 citations
Legacy information systems: issues and directions
Jesús Bisbal, Deirdre Lawless, Bing Wu et al. · IEEE Software · 1999 · 324 citations
Legacy systems: coping with success
Keith Bennett · IEEE Software · 1995 · 294 citations
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University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
4 h-index
10 publications
538 citations
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
3 h-index
15 publications
1.9K citations
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
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8 publications
143 citations
University of Sannio
Benevento, Italy
3 h-index
9 publications
1.1K citations
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Ciudad Real, Spain
3 h-index
9 publications
146 citations
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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7 publications
172 citations
Netherlands Aerospace Centre
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2 publications
35 citations
IBM (Canada)
Markham, Canada
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3 publications
95 citations
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- IEEE Software
9 publications · 785 citations
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- Journal of Systems and Software
JSS · 5 publications · 465 citations
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- Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and Practice
4 publications · 241 citations
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- IT Professional
2 publications · 419 citations
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- Information and Software Technology
2 publications · 76 citations
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