{"id":38508,"date":"2016-11-23T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliap17.wordpress.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:51:30","slug":"dont-forget-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/syndicated\/dont-forget-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t forget Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_718\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-718\" src=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/m.jpg?w=820\" alt=\"m\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/m.jpg 537w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/m.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/m.jpg?w=300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\"   \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itservicemanagement-itil.com\/software-maintenance-from-a-service-perspective\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.itservicemanagement-itil.com\/software-maintenance-from-a-service-perspective\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the software development lifecycle, the last phase (but not least) is Maintenance. Once you delivered software, defects are uncovered, environments might change and new requirementes will appear; thus, software maintenance is necessary. Its objective is to modify existing software while preserving its integrity. It&#8217;s also important to apply maintenance activities before the final delivery of software.<\/p>\n<p>Maintenance consumes a major share of the financial resources in a software life cycle. I suppose its because it has no end (or until Retirement).<\/p>\n<figure data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_687\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\" ><img class=\" size-full wp-image-687 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/table.png?w=820\" alt=\"table\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/table.png 326w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/table.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/table.png?w=300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\"   \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preventative categories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are key issues that must be covered to ensure a good maintenance, basically they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technical issues<\/li>\n<li>Management issues<\/li>\n<li>Cost estimation<\/li>\n<li>Measurement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\" ><img class=\" size-full wp-image-693 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/proces.png?w=820\" alt=\"proces\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/proces.png 430w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/proces.png?w=128 128w, https:\/\/juliap17.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/proces.png?w=255 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Techniques of Software Maintenance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Program comprehension:\u00a0<\/em>To read and understand programs in order to implement modifications.<\/li>\n<li><em>Reengineering:\u00a0<\/em>To alterate software to reconstitute it in a new form and to implement it. Refactoring is a reengineering technique that reorginizes the program without changing its behavior.<\/li>\n<li><em>Reverse engineering:\u00a0<\/em> To identify software&#8217;s components and their relantionships to reach higher levels of abstraction. Its purpose is to produce graphs from source code.<\/li>\n<li><em>Migration:\u00a0<\/em>To modify software so it can run in different enviroments.<\/li>\n<li><em>Retirement:\u00a0<\/em>When software reaches the end of its useful life. A previous analysis must be done to make the retirement decision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, maintenance can be the most important phaste of the lifecycle, without it, the previous steps won&#8217;t be used to the maximum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swebokwiki.org\/Chapter_5:_Software_Maintenance\" >http:\/\/swebokwiki.org\/Chapter_5:_Software_Maintenance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/juliap17.wordpress.com\/672\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/juliap17.wordpress.com\/672\/\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=juliap17.wordpress.com&#038;blog=115196946&%23038;post=672&%23038;subd=juliap17&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.itservicemanagement-itil.com\/software-maintenance-from-a-service-perspective\/ In the software development lifecycle, the last phase (but not least) is Maintenance. Once you delivered software, defects are uncovered, environments might change and new requirementes will appear; thus, software maintenance is necessary. Its objective is to modify existing software while preserving its integrity. It&#8217;s also important to apply maintenance activities before the final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/syndicated\/dont-forget-maintenance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t forget Maintenance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[207,44,385,25],"class_list":["post-38508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-syndicated","tag-lifecycle","tag-sin-categoria","tag-software-maintenance","tag-tc1019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38811,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508\/revisions\/38811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}