Software Maintenance is the systematic process of modifying and updating software systems after their initial deployment to correct faults, improve performance, or adapt to a changed environment, distinguishing it from earlier development phases by its focus on post-delivery evolution and sustainment.
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No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
The mythical man-month: essays on software engineering
Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 2.5K citations
Refactoring improving the design of existing code
Mauricio A. Saca · 2017 · 2.1K citations
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University of Sannio
Benevento, Italy
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306 publications
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University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada
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Queen's University
Kingston, Canada
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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, United States
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Microsoft (United States)
Redmond, United States
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University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
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Polytechnique Montréal
Montreal, Canada
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University of Maryland, College Park
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