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Software maintenance work is often considered a dauntingly rigid activity – this book proves the opposite: it demands high levels of creativity and thinking outside the box. Highlighting the creative aspects of software maintenance and combining analytica
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Unraveling Software Maintenance and Evolution Thinking Outside the Box
Unraveling Software Maintenance and Evolution
Ervin Varga
Unraveling Software Maintenance and Evolution Thinking Outside the Box
Ervin Varga Expro I.T. Consulting Kikinda, Serbia
ISBN 978-3-319-71302-1 ISBN 978-3-319-71303-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71303-8
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To my family (my wife Zorica and my sons Andrej and Stefan), who withstood another book project.
Preface
During my professional career as a consultant, I have witnessed a frequently reappearing pattern in practice. A project starts seemingly okay, lots of cool technologies are applied, but eventually things simply get stuck. When that happens, all sorts of ad hoc remedies are tried out until the company’s new product is finally shipped. Nevertheless, even in this success scenario, evolving the product becomes painful. Why does this happen so often? Do we lack more cool stuff (programming languages, software development methods, tools, etc.) in the industry? Are we bad at teaching people how to perform software development? Maybe with a new language we could reduce quality issues and increase productivity at the same time. Perhaps using a more sophisticated tool would solve our core problems. Possibly by leveraging massive open online courses (MOOC), we could smooth out educational differences worldwide. However, as F. Brooks has pointed out in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) (Add
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