%0 Conference Paper %1 swanson76 %A Swanson, Burton E. %B Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering %C San Francisco, California %D 1976 %I IEEE Computer Society %K evolution maintenance msr seminal software %P 492--497 %T The dimensions of maintenance %U http://portal.acm.org/affiliated/citation.cfm?id=807723&dl=ACM&coll=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 %X The area of software maintenance has been described by one author as an “iceberg.� (EDP Analyzer, 1972) Much goes on here that does not currently meet the eye. In part, this is the consequence of measurement difficulties. Practitioners and researchers can benefit from an understanding of the “dimensionality� of the maintenance problem. Some measures are suggested for coming to grips with this dimensionality, and problems of utilization associated with these measures are explored.

@inproceedings{swanson76, abstract = {The area of software maintenance has been described by one author as an “iceberg.� (EDP Analyzer, 1972) Much goes on here that does not currently meet the eye. In part, this is the consequence of measurement difficulties. Practitioners and researchers can benefit from an understanding of the “dimensionality� of the maintenance problem. Some measures are suggested for coming to grips with this dimensionality, and problems of utilization associated with these measures are explored.}, added-at = {2007-12-03T19:23:25.000+0100}, address = {San Francisco, California}, author = {Swanson, Burton E.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26d469c2804bca47b02b559177c1925be/neilernst}, booktitle = {Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering}, citeulike-article-id = {768959}, comment = {- defines term adaptive, perfective, corrective maintenance - keep in mind the systems he was examining were quite different than current ones}, description = {Not previously uploaded}, interhash = {6476a2a5dee91abbba3889d81507c9af}, intrahash = {6d469c2804bca47b02b559177c1925be}, keywords = {evolution maintenance msr seminal software}, pages = {492--497}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, timestamp = {2009-03-03T03:18:45.000+0100}, title = {The dimensions of maintenance}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/affiliated/citation.cfm?id=807723&dl=ACM&coll=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618}, year = 1976 }