Following presentation answers:
- Why do we need evolution?
- What happens if we do not evolve the software?
- What are the types of software evolution?
- What are Lehman's laws
- What are the strategies for evolution?
The document discusses key concepts in software design, including:
- Design involves modeling the system architecture, interfaces, and components before implementation. This allows assessment and improvement of quality.
- Important design concepts span abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, and functional independence. Architecture defines overall structure and interactions. Patterns help solve common problems.
- Separation of concerns and related concepts like modularity and information hiding help decompose problems into independently designed and optimized pieces to improve manageability. Functional independence means each module has a single, well-defined purpose with minimal interaction.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard modeling language used to visualize, specify, construct, and document software systems. It uses graphical notation to depict systems from initial design through detailed design. Common UML diagram types include use case diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and state machine diagrams. UML provides a standard way to communicate designs across development teams and is supported by many modeling tools.
This lecture provide a detail concepts of user interface development design and evaluation. This lecture have complete guideline toward UI development. The interesting thing about this lecture is Software User Interface Design trends.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
Formal Specification in Software Engineering SE9koolkampus
This document discusses formal specification techniques for software. It describes algebraic techniques for specifying interfaces as abstract data types and model-based techniques for specifying system behavior. Algebraic specifications define operations and their relationships, while model-based specifications represent the system state using mathematical constructs like sets and sequences. Formal specification finds errors earlier and reduces rework, though it requires more upfront effort. The document also provides an example of formally specifying an air traffic control system and insulin pump.
Architecture design in software engineeringPreeti Mishra
The document discusses software architectural design. It defines architecture as the structure of a system's components, their relationships, and properties. An architectural design model is transferable across different systems. The architecture enables analysis of design requirements and consideration of alternatives early in development. It represents the system in an intellectually graspable way. Common architectural styles structure systems and their components in different ways, such as data-centered, data flow, and call-and-return styles.
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) involves building software using pre-existing software components rather than developing everything from scratch. Well-designed components interact through defined interfaces, are modular, deployable, and replaceable. CBSE allows for increased reliability, reduced risks, effective specialist use, and accelerated development by reusing tested components instead of recreating them. Potential disadvantages include increased initial development time and difficulty testing components for unknown uses.
The document discusses different types of software metrics that can be used to measure various aspects of software development. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process, while product metrics measure attributes of the software product. Project metrics are used to monitor and control software projects. Metrics need to be normalized to allow for comparison between different projects or teams. This can be done using size-oriented metrics that relate measures to the size of the software, or function-oriented metrics that relate measures to the functionality delivered.
The document discusses key concepts in software design, including:
- Design involves modeling the system architecture, interfaces, and components before implementation. This allows assessment and improvement of quality.
- Important design concepts span abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, and functional independence. Architecture defines overall structure and interactions. Patterns help solve common problems.
- Separation of concerns and related concepts like modularity and information hiding help decompose problems into independently designed and optimized pieces to improve manageability. Functional independence means each module has a single, well-defined purpose with minimal interaction.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard modeling language used to visualize, specify, construct, and document software systems. It uses graphical notation to depict systems from initial design through detailed design. Common UML diagram types include use case diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and state machine diagrams. UML provides a standard way to communicate designs across development teams and is supported by many modeling tools.
This lecture provide a detail concepts of user interface development design and evaluation. This lecture have complete guideline toward UI development. The interesting thing about this lecture is Software User Interface Design trends.
The document discusses software architecture design. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between components, and properties of components. An architectural design model can be applied to other systems and represents predictable ways to describe architecture. The architecture represents a system and enables analysis of effectiveness in meeting requirements and reducing risks. Key aspects of architectural design include communication between stakeholders, controlling complexity, consistency, reducing risks, and enabling reuse. Common architectural styles discussed include data-centered, data flow, call-and-return, object-oriented, and layered architectures.
Formal Specification in Software Engineering SE9koolkampus
This document discusses formal specification techniques for software. It describes algebraic techniques for specifying interfaces as abstract data types and model-based techniques for specifying system behavior. Algebraic specifications define operations and their relationships, while model-based specifications represent the system state using mathematical constructs like sets and sequences. Formal specification finds errors earlier and reduces rework, though it requires more upfront effort. The document also provides an example of formally specifying an air traffic control system and insulin pump.
Architecture design in software engineeringPreeti Mishra
The document discusses software architectural design. It defines architecture as the structure of a system's components, their relationships, and properties. An architectural design model is transferable across different systems. The architecture enables analysis of design requirements and consideration of alternatives early in development. It represents the system in an intellectually graspable way. Common architectural styles structure systems and their components in different ways, such as data-centered, data flow, and call-and-return styles.
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) involves building software using pre-existing software components rather than developing everything from scratch. Well-designed components interact through defined interfaces, are modular, deployable, and replaceable. CBSE allows for increased reliability, reduced risks, effective specialist use, and accelerated development by reusing tested components instead of recreating them. Potential disadvantages include increased initial development time and difficulty testing components for unknown uses.
The document discusses different types of software metrics that can be used to measure various aspects of software development. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process, while product metrics measure attributes of the software product. Project metrics are used to monitor and control software projects. Metrics need to be normalized to allow for comparison between different projects or teams. This can be done using size-oriented metrics that relate measures to the size of the software, or function-oriented metrics that relate measures to the functionality delivered.
The Unified Process (UP) is a software development process that provides guidance on team activities and work integration. It originated from issues with traditional processes being too diverse and outdated. Key aspects of UP include being use-case driven, architecture-centric, and iterative/incremental. UP follows a lifecycle of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition phases within iterative development cycles. While UP addressed issues with prior methods, its weaknesses include not covering the full software process and tools-focus not suiting complex systems.
This lecture provide a review of requirement engineering process. The slides have been prepared after reading Ian Summerville and Roger Pressman work. This lecture is helpful to understand user, and user requirements.
The document discusses requirements analysis and specification in software engineering. It defines what requirements are and explains the typical activities involved - requirements gathering, analysis, and specification. The importance of documenting requirements in a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document is explained. Key sections of an SRS like stakeholders, types of requirements (functional and non-functional), and examples are covered. Special attention is given to requirements for critical systems and importance of non-functional requirements.
This document discusses various topics related to software design including design principles, concepts, modeling, and architecture. It provides examples of class/data design, architectural design, interface design, and component design. Some key points discussed include:
- Software design creates representations and models that provide details on architecture, data structures, interfaces, and components needed to implement the system.
- Design concepts like abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, and information hiding are important to reduce complexity and improve design.
- Different types of design models include data/class design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design.
- Good software architecture and design lead to systems that are more understandable, maintainable, and of higher quality.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
Maintenance involves keeping software or assets in working condition. There are four main types of maintenance: corrective, adaptive, preventive, and perfective. Maintenance is needed to fix problems, adapt to new environments, prevent issues, and improve performance. While necessary, maintenance is costly due to the work required to modify existing software. Efforts like designing for change and documentation can help reduce these costs. Overall, maintenance plays a critical role in maximizing the usefulness of software over its lifetime.
Design and Implementation in Software EngineeringKourosh Sajjadi
These slides were presented to the software engineering class held in IAUN. The main context is provided from the "Software Engineering" book authored by Sommerville.
Most of the icons used in the slides are provided in the flaticon.com website.
Thanks to our professor Habib Seifzadeh.
A cooperation with Mohammad Mostajeran.
This document discusses software metrics and measurement. It describes how measurement can be used throughout the software development process to assist with estimation, quality control, productivity assessment, and project control. It defines key terms like measures, metrics, and indicators and explains how they provide insight into the software process and product. The document also discusses using metrics to evaluate and improve the software process as well as track project status, risks, and quality. Finally, it covers different types of metrics like size-oriented, function-oriented, and quality metrics.
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
What is professional software development and definition of software engineering. Who is a software engineer. Difference between Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Software development process models
Rapid Application Development (RAD) Model
Evolutionary Process Models
Spiral Model
THE FORMAL METHODS MODEL
Specialized Process Models
The Concurrent Development Model
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
This document discusses the nature of software. It defines software as a set of instructions that can be stored electronically. Software engineering encompasses processes and methods to build high quality computer software. Software has a dual role as both a product and a vehicle to deliver products. Characteristics of software include being engineered rather than manufactured, and not wearing out over time like hardware. Software application domains include system software, application software, engineering/scientific software, embedded software, product-line software, web applications, and artificial intelligence software. The document also discusses challenges like open-world computing and legacy software.
The document discusses requirements analysis for software engineering projects. It describes requirements analysis as bridging system requirements and software design by providing models of system information, functions, and behavior. The objectives of analysis are identified as identifying customer needs, evaluating feasibility, allocating functions, and establishing schedules and constraints. Common analysis techniques discussed include interviews, use cases, prototyping, and specification documentation.
Software maintenance typically requires 40-60% of the total lifecycle effort for a software product, with some cases requiring as much as 90%. A widely used rule of thumb is that maintenance activities are distributed as 60% for enhancements, 20% for adaptations, and 20% for corrections. Studies show the typical level of effort devoted to software maintenance is around 50% of the total lifecycle effort. Boehm suggests measuring maintenance effort using an activity ratio that considers the number of instructions added or modified over the total instructions. The effort required can then be estimated using programmer months based on the activity ratio and an effort adjustment factor. Emphasis on reliability during development can reduce future maintenance effort.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard language for specifying, visualizing, and documenting software systems. It uses various diagrams to model different views of a system, such as structural diagrams (e.g. class diagrams), behavioral diagrams (e.g. sequence diagrams), and deployment diagrams. The key building blocks of UML include things (classes, interfaces, use cases), relationships (associations, generalizations), and diagrams. UML aims to provide a clear blueprint of software systems for both technical and non-technical audiences.
This document discusses computer-based systems engineering. It defines a system as a collection of interrelated components working towards a common objective. Systems engineering involves designing, implementing, and operating systems that include hardware, software, and people. The document outlines the systems engineering process, which typically follows a waterfall model from requirements definition to system integration. It also discusses emergent system properties, system modeling, procurement, and challenges such as coordinating different engineering disciplines.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
Software systems must evolve over time to remain useful as requirements, environments, and technologies change. There are several processes involved in software evolution, including software maintenance to fix bugs, adapt to new environments, or implement new functionality. Legacy system evolution requires assessing the business value and quality of the system to determine the best strategy, such as continuing maintenance, reengineering to improve maintainability, or replacing the system.
Software Change in Software Engineering SE27koolkampus
There are different strategies for managing software change, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and software re-engineering. Lehman's Laws describe invariant relationships that affect how software systems evolve over time. Maintaining software is typically more expensive than the original development and costs are influenced by factors like staff stability and system structure. Architectural evolution involves transitioning legacy systems from centralized to distributed architectures, often starting with distributing just the user interface.
The Unified Process (UP) is a software development process that provides guidance on team activities and work integration. It originated from issues with traditional processes being too diverse and outdated. Key aspects of UP include being use-case driven, architecture-centric, and iterative/incremental. UP follows a lifecycle of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition phases within iterative development cycles. While UP addressed issues with prior methods, its weaknesses include not covering the full software process and tools-focus not suiting complex systems.
This lecture provide a review of requirement engineering process. The slides have been prepared after reading Ian Summerville and Roger Pressman work. This lecture is helpful to understand user, and user requirements.
The document discusses requirements analysis and specification in software engineering. It defines what requirements are and explains the typical activities involved - requirements gathering, analysis, and specification. The importance of documenting requirements in a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document is explained. Key sections of an SRS like stakeholders, types of requirements (functional and non-functional), and examples are covered. Special attention is given to requirements for critical systems and importance of non-functional requirements.
This document discusses various topics related to software design including design principles, concepts, modeling, and architecture. It provides examples of class/data design, architectural design, interface design, and component design. Some key points discussed include:
- Software design creates representations and models that provide details on architecture, data structures, interfaces, and components needed to implement the system.
- Design concepts like abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, and information hiding are important to reduce complexity and improve design.
- Different types of design models include data/class design, architectural design, interface design, and component-level design.
- Good software architecture and design lead to systems that are more understandable, maintainable, and of higher quality.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
Maintenance involves keeping software or assets in working condition. There are four main types of maintenance: corrective, adaptive, preventive, and perfective. Maintenance is needed to fix problems, adapt to new environments, prevent issues, and improve performance. While necessary, maintenance is costly due to the work required to modify existing software. Efforts like designing for change and documentation can help reduce these costs. Overall, maintenance plays a critical role in maximizing the usefulness of software over its lifetime.
Design and Implementation in Software EngineeringKourosh Sajjadi
These slides were presented to the software engineering class held in IAUN. The main context is provided from the "Software Engineering" book authored by Sommerville.
Most of the icons used in the slides are provided in the flaticon.com website.
Thanks to our professor Habib Seifzadeh.
A cooperation with Mohammad Mostajeran.
This document discusses software metrics and measurement. It describes how measurement can be used throughout the software development process to assist with estimation, quality control, productivity assessment, and project control. It defines key terms like measures, metrics, and indicators and explains how they provide insight into the software process and product. The document also discusses using metrics to evaluate and improve the software process as well as track project status, risks, and quality. Finally, it covers different types of metrics like size-oriented, function-oriented, and quality metrics.
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
What is professional software development and definition of software engineering. Who is a software engineer. Difference between Computer Science and Systems Engineering
Software development process models
Rapid Application Development (RAD) Model
Evolutionary Process Models
Spiral Model
THE FORMAL METHODS MODEL
Specialized Process Models
The Concurrent Development Model
This document discusses common myths held by software managers, developers, and customers. It describes myths such as believing formal standards and procedures are sufficient, thinking new hardware means high quality development, adding people to late projects will help catch up, and outsourcing means relaxing oversight. Realities discussed include standards not being used effectively, tools being more important than hardware, adding people making projects later, and needing management and control of outsourced projects. Developer myths like thinking the job is done once code runs and quality can't be assessed until code runs are addressed. The document emphasizes the importance of requirements, documentation, quality processes, and addressing change impacts.
This document provides an overview of software maintenance. It discusses that software maintenance is an important phase of the software life cycle that accounts for 40-70% of total costs. Maintenance includes error correction, enhancements, deletions of obsolete capabilities, and optimizations. The document categorizes maintenance into corrective, adaptive, perfective and preventive types. It also discusses the need for maintenance to adapt to changing user requirements and environments. The document describes approaches to software maintenance including program understanding, generating maintenance proposals, accounting for ripple effects, and modified program testing. It discusses challenges like lack of documentation and high staff turnover. The document also introduces concepts of reengineering and reverse engineering to make legacy systems more maintainable.
This document discusses the nature of software. It defines software as a set of instructions that can be stored electronically. Software engineering encompasses processes and methods to build high quality computer software. Software has a dual role as both a product and a vehicle to deliver products. Characteristics of software include being engineered rather than manufactured, and not wearing out over time like hardware. Software application domains include system software, application software, engineering/scientific software, embedded software, product-line software, web applications, and artificial intelligence software. The document also discusses challenges like open-world computing and legacy software.
The document discusses requirements analysis for software engineering projects. It describes requirements analysis as bridging system requirements and software design by providing models of system information, functions, and behavior. The objectives of analysis are identified as identifying customer needs, evaluating feasibility, allocating functions, and establishing schedules and constraints. Common analysis techniques discussed include interviews, use cases, prototyping, and specification documentation.
Software maintenance typically requires 40-60% of the total lifecycle effort for a software product, with some cases requiring as much as 90%. A widely used rule of thumb is that maintenance activities are distributed as 60% for enhancements, 20% for adaptations, and 20% for corrections. Studies show the typical level of effort devoted to software maintenance is around 50% of the total lifecycle effort. Boehm suggests measuring maintenance effort using an activity ratio that considers the number of instructions added or modified over the total instructions. The effort required can then be estimated using programmer months based on the activity ratio and an effort adjustment factor. Emphasis on reliability during development can reduce future maintenance effort.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard language for specifying, visualizing, and documenting software systems. It uses various diagrams to model different views of a system, such as structural diagrams (e.g. class diagrams), behavioral diagrams (e.g. sequence diagrams), and deployment diagrams. The key building blocks of UML include things (classes, interfaces, use cases), relationships (associations, generalizations), and diagrams. UML aims to provide a clear blueprint of software systems for both technical and non-technical audiences.
This document discusses computer-based systems engineering. It defines a system as a collection of interrelated components working towards a common objective. Systems engineering involves designing, implementing, and operating systems that include hardware, software, and people. The document outlines the systems engineering process, which typically follows a waterfall model from requirements definition to system integration. It also discusses emergent system properties, system modeling, procurement, and challenges such as coordinating different engineering disciplines.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
Software systems must evolve over time to remain useful as requirements, environments, and technologies change. There are several processes involved in software evolution, including software maintenance to fix bugs, adapt to new environments, or implement new functionality. Legacy system evolution requires assessing the business value and quality of the system to determine the best strategy, such as continuing maintenance, reengineering to improve maintainability, or replacing the system.
Software Change in Software Engineering SE27koolkampus
There are different strategies for managing software change, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and software re-engineering. Lehman's Laws describe invariant relationships that affect how software systems evolve over time. Maintaining software is typically more expensive than the original development and costs are influenced by factors like staff stability and system structure. Architectural evolution involves transitioning legacy systems from centralized to distributed architectures, often starting with distributing just the user interface.
The document discusses software change and maintenance. It describes different strategies for changing software systems, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and software re-engineering. It also discusses Lehman's laws of software evolution and principles of software maintenance. Key points covered include that software change is inevitable, maintenance is generally more expensive than development, and architectural evolution involves transitioning from centralized to distributed architectures.
This document discusses strategies for managing software change, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and re-engineering. It explains that software change is inevitable as requirements, business needs, and errors change over time. The key strategies discussed are software maintenance, where the system structure remains stable but changes are made in response to new requirements; architectural transformation, where the system architecture is modified; and re-engineering, where no new functionality is added but the system is restructured. The challenges of managing changes to legacy systems are also addressed.
SE - Lecture 13 - Software Evolution and Tech Trends.pptxTangZhiSiang
This document discusses software evolution and emerging trends in software engineering. It covers topics like evolution processes, program evolution dynamics, software maintenance, and legacy system management. The key points are:
1) Software evolution is an important part of software engineering as systems must change over their lifetime to adapt to changing requirements and environments.
2) There are laws of program evolution that state software maintenance is inevitable, system structure degrades over time without preventative maintenance, and most large projects work in a "saturated" state where changes have little effect.
3) Software maintenance includes fault repairs, environmental adaptations, and functionality additions to address changing needs. It accounts for most IT budgets and focuses more on new requirements than fixes.
This document discusses software evolution and maintenance. It covers topics like change processes, program evolution dynamics, software maintenance, and legacy system management. It notes that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, errors that need fixing, and other factors. Most software budgets are spent on evolving existing systems rather than new development. Lehman's laws describe insights into software evolution, such as the notion that change is continuous. Software maintenance involves modifying operational software to fix bugs, adapt to new environments, or add new functionality. Maintenance costs are typically higher than development costs and increase over time as software degrades.
This document summarizes chapter 9 of the textbook "Software Engineering" which discusses software evolution. It covers topics like evolution processes, program evolution dynamics, software maintenance, and legacy system management. The key points are that software change is inevitable, the majority of budgets go to maintaining existing software rather than new development, and Lehman's laws describe patterns observed in software evolution over time like continuing change and increasing complexity.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
This document discusses software maintenance. It defines maintenance as modifying software after delivery to fix bugs, improve performance, or adapt to changes. Approximately 70% of software costs are for maintenance. Maintainability refers to how easy software is to correct, adapt, or enhance. Common maintenance types are corrective, adaptive, and perfective. Proper documentation and design are important to reduce maintenance costs and issues like degraded structure over time.
The document discusses software evolution. It begins by defining software evolution as the process by which programs are modified and adapted in a changing environment. It notes that software evolution aims to implement major changes while ensuring reliability and flexibility. It discusses some of the challenges of software evolution, such as preserving quality as systems change and handling large amounts of data. It concludes that software evolution is important for incorporating new requirements and meeting business objectives over the lifetime of a system.
The document discusses software maintenance and related concepts. It covers:
1. The different types of software maintenance including corrective, adaptive, preventive, and perfective maintenance.
2. Factors that influence the cost of software maintenance, including technical factors like programming style and documentation as well as non-technical factors like staff stability and dependence on external environments.
3. Software re-engineering which aims to improve maintainability through processes like reverse engineering, restructuring code and data, and forward engineering. Reverse engineering recovers specifications from existing code while forward engineering develops new systems.
4. Other maintenance concepts covered include reusability of software components, requirement specification, and incorporating existing components into new systems.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
The document provides an overview of software engineering, discussing what it is, why it is important, and key concepts like the software development lifecycle, processes, and models. It introduces software engineering as a way to build software in a controlled, predictable manner by giving control over functionality, quality, and resources. It also summarizes several software development process models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and spiral.
SWE-401 - 11. Software maintenance overviewghayour abbas
The document discusses software maintenance and engineering. It defines software maintenance as modifications and updates made after initial delivery. There are various types of maintenance like corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive. Maintenance is important due to factors like changing market conditions, client requirements, host modifications, and organizational changes. Maintenance can be costly, often accounting for over 50% of total software costs. The document also discusses software re-engineering and component reuse.
This document discusses software maintenance and evolution. It covers topics like:
- Software needs to change over time to meet new requirements and fix errors
- Maintenance includes fault repair, system adaptation, and functionality changes
- There are different strategies for software evolution like maintenance, architectural transformation, and reengineering
- Maintenance is important but inefficient due to issues like lack of documentation and high turnover
- Proper management of maintenance through techniques like change management can help reduce costs
The chapter discusses software evolution, including that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, and errors. It describes how organizations must manage change to existing software systems, which represent huge investments. The majority of large software budgets are spent evolving, rather than developing new, systems. The chapter outlines the software evolution process and different approaches to evolving systems, including addressing urgent changes. It also discusses challenges with legacy systems and their management.
This document discusses software evolution and maintenance. It covers topics like the inevitability of software change, legacy systems, and evolution processes. Software evolution involves implementing changes to existing systems to address new requirements, errors, or other issues. Most software budgets are spent evolving existing systems rather than developing new ones. Legacy systems rely on outdated technologies and can be difficult and expensive to change or replace. Effective evolution processes are needed to manage software changes over a system's lifetime.
This document discusses various approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, application frameworks, component-based development, and generative programming. Design patterns describe abstract solutions to common problems in a reusable form. Application frameworks provide reusable abstract and concrete classes that can be adapted and extended to create application systems. Conceptual reuse through design patterns and generative programming allows reuse of ideas rather than just code.
Software maintenance is widely accepted as part of the software development lifecycle. It involves all modifications and updates made after initial software delivery. Maintenance is often needed due to changing market conditions, client requirements, host modifications, and organizational changes. Common types of maintenance include corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive maintenance. Studies show maintenance costs can be as high as 67% of total software costs, as older software becomes more difficult and costly to maintain due to advancing technology. A standard maintenance process involves identification and analysis of issues, design and implementation of solutions, testing, acceptance, delivery, and ongoing maintenance management.
This presentation describes:
- What is software size?
- How to Measure Software size?
- Techniques and parameters in Software Size estimation
- Where and how to apply the techniques?
The document describes the V-Model software development lifecycle (SDLC). It discusses the history and evolution of the V-Model from the waterfall model. The key phases of the V-Model are presented, including requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. The phases emphasize testing activities that correspond to each design phase. Pros and cons of the V-Model are provided, as well as when it is most applicable compared to other models like waterfall.
Scrum is an agile framework for managing work with an emphasis on iterative development and collaboration. It uses sprints, daily stand-ups, backlogs and emphasizes adaptive planning and evolutionary development. Key roles include the product owner, scrum master and development team. Sprints involve planning, daily stand-ups and a review at the end where the completed increment is demonstrated. The process aims to deliver working software frequently to gain feedback and continuously improve the product.
CapTechTalks Webinar Slides June 2024 Donovan Wright.pptxCapitolTechU
Slides from a Capitol Technology University webinar held June 20, 2024. The webinar featured Dr. Donovan Wright, presenting on the Department of Defense Digital Transformation.
How to stay relevant as a cyber professional: Skills, trends and career paths...Infosec
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Students will be able to explain the role and impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. They will understand how ICT tools, such as computers, the internet, and educational software, enhance learning and teaching processes. By exploring various ICT applications, students will recognize how these technologies facilitate access to information, improve communication, support collaboration, and enable personalized learning experiences.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭:
-Students will be able to discuss what constitutes reliable sources on the internet. They will learn to identify key characteristics of trustworthy information, such as credibility, accuracy, and authority. By examining different types of online sources, students will develop skills to evaluate the reliability of websites and content, ensuring they can distinguish between reputable information and misinformation.
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Decolonizing Universal Design for LearningFrederic Fovet
UDL has gained in popularity over the last decade both in the K-12 and the post-secondary sectors. The usefulness of UDL to create inclusive learning experiences for the full array of diverse learners has been well documented in the literature, and there is now increasing scholarship examining the process of integrating UDL strategically across organisations. One concern, however, remains under-reported and under-researched. Much of the scholarship on UDL ironically remains while and Eurocentric. Even if UDL, as a discourse, considers the decolonization of the curriculum, it is abundantly clear that the research and advocacy related to UDL originates almost exclusively from the Global North and from a Euro-Caucasian authorship. It is argued that it is high time for the way UDL has been monopolized by Global North scholars and practitioners to be challenged. Voices discussing and framing UDL, from the Global South and Indigenous communities, must be amplified and showcased in order to rectify this glaring imbalance and contradiction.
This session represents an opportunity for the author to reflect on a volume he has just finished editing entitled Decolonizing UDL and to highlight and share insights into the key innovations, promising practices, and calls for change, originating from the Global South and Indigenous Communities, that have woven the canvas of this book. The session seeks to create a space for critical dialogue, for the challenging of existing power dynamics within the UDL scholarship, and for the emergence of transformative voices from underrepresented communities. The workshop will use the UDL principles scrupulously to engage participants in diverse ways (challenging single story approaches to the narrative that surrounds UDL implementation) , as well as offer multiple means of action and expression for them to gain ownership over the key themes and concerns of the session (by encouraging a broad range of interventions, contributions, and stances).
The Science of Learning: implications for modern teachingDerek Wenmoth
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3. the gradual development of something.
Evolution is what happens
while you’re busy
making other plans.”
The term evolution does not refer to changes that occur in an individual within its life
time .Instead it refers to the changes in the characteristics of population over the
course of generation.
E.g. the Human Evolution Theory.
4. Organizations have huge investments in their software systems - they are critical
business assets.
To maintain the value of these assets to the business, they must be changed and
updated.
Companies prefer evolution on new developments.
5. Evolution is what actually happens to the software
There are two things in software evolution.
i. Software change.
ii. Software maintenance.
6. Software change is unavoidable
New requirements emerge when the software is used
The business environment changes
Errors must be repaired
New equipment must be accommodated
The performance or reliability may have to be improved.
7. Predicting the number of changes requires and understanding of the
relationships between a system and its environment.
Tightly coupled systems require changes whenever the environment is
changed.
Factors influencing this relationship are
Number and complexity of system interfaces.
The business processes where the system is used.
8. Software maintenance
Architectural evolution
Software re-engineering
Software maintenance
Changes are made in response to
changed requirements but the
fundamental software structure is stable
Architectural transformation
The architecture of the system is
modified.
Software re-engineering
No new functionality is added to the
system but it is restructured and
reorganised to facilitate future changes
9. Maintenance does not normally involve major changes to the system’s architecture
The system requirements are likely to change while the system is being developed
because the environment is changing. Therefore a delivered system won't meet its
requirements!
Systems are tightly coupled with their environment. When a system is installed in an
environment it changes that environment and
therefore changes the system requirements.
Systems MUST be maintained therefore if they
are to remain useful in an environment.
10. Corrective
Maintenance to repair software faults
Adaptive
Maintenance to adapt software to a different operating environment
Perfective
Maintenance to add to or modify the system’s functionality
12. Maintenance prediction is concerned with assessing which parts of the
system may cause problems and have high maintenance costs
Change acceptance depends on the maintainability of the components affected by
the change;
Implementing changes reduces its maintainability;
Maintenance costs depend on the number of changes and costs of change depend
on maintainability.
13.
14. Change requests are requests for system changes from users, customers or
management
In principle, all change requests should be carefully analysed as part of the
maintenance process and then implemented
In practice, some change requests must be implemented urgently
Fault repair
Changes to the system’s environment
Urgently required business changes
19. Usually greater than development costs
Increases as software is maintained. Maintenance corrupts the software structure so
makes further maintenance more difficult.
Ageing software can have high support costs (e.g. old languages, compilers etc.)
20. Team stability
Maintenance costs are reduced if the same staff are involved with them for some time
Contractual responsibility
The developers of a system may have no contractual responsibility for maintenance so there
is no incentive to design for future change
Staff skills
Maintenance staff are often inexperienced and have limited domain knowledge
Program age and structure
As programs age, their structure is degraded and they become harder to understand and
change
21. Rather than think of separate development and maintenance phases, evolutionary
software is software that is designed so that it can continuously evolve throughout its
lifetime
22. Program evolution dynamics is the study of the processes of system change.
After major empirical studies, Lehman and Belady proposed that there were a number
of ‘laws’ which applied to all systems as they evolved.
There are sensible observations rather than laws. They are applicable to large
systems developed by large organisations. Perhaps less applicable in other cases.
23. Law Description
Continuing change A program that is used in a real-world environment
must necessarily change, or else become
progressively less useful in that environment.
Increasing complexity As an evolving program changes, its structure tends to
become more complex. Extra resources must be
devoted to preserving and simplifying the structure.
Large program evolution System attributes such as size, time between
releases, and the number of reported errors is
approximately invariant for each system release.
Organizational stability Over a program’s lifetime, its rate of development is
approximately constant and independent of the
resources devoted to system development.
24. Law Description
Conservation of familiarity Over the lifetime of a system, the incremental change
in each release is approximately constant.
Continuing growth The functionality offered by systems has to continually
increase to maintain user satisfaction.
Declining quality The quality of systems will decline unless they are
modified to reflect changes in their operational
environment.
Feedback system Evolution processes incorporate multiagent, multiloop
feedback systems and you have to treat them as
feedback systems to achieve significant product
improvement.
25. There is a need to convert many legacy systems from a centralised architecture to a
client-server architecture
Change drivers
Hardware costs. Servers are cheaper than mainframes
User interface expectations. Users expect graphical user interfaces
Distributed access to systems. Users wish to access the system from different,
geographically separated, computers
26.
27. The more that is distributed from the server to the client, the higher the costs of
architectural evolution
The simplest distribution model is UI distribution where only the user interface is
implemented on the server
The most complex option is where the server simply provides data management and
application services are implemented on the client
28.
29. UI distribution takes advantage of the local processing power on PCs to implement a
graphical user interface
Where there is a clear separation between the UI and the application then the legacy
system can be modified to distribute the UI
Otherwise, screen management middleware can translate text interfaces to graphical
interfaces
30.
31.
32. Organizations that rely on legacy systems must choose a strategy for evolving these
systems.
o Scrap the system completely and modify business processes so that it is no
longer required;
o Continue maintaining the system;
o Transform the system by re-engineering to improve its maintainability;
o Replace the system with a new system.
The strategy chosen should depend on the system quality and its business value.
33. Low quality, low business value
These systems should be scrapped.
Low-quality, high-business value
These make an important business contribution but are expensive to maintain. Should
be re-engineered or replaced if a suitable system is available.
High-quality, low-business value
Replace with COTS, scrap completely or maintain.
High-quality, high business value
Continue in operation using normal system maintenance.
34. Ideally, for distribution, there should be a clear separation between the user interface,
the system services and the system data management
In practice, these are usually intermingled in older legacy systems
35.
36.
37. Re-structuring or re-writing part or all of a legacy system without changing its
functionality.
Applicable where some but not all sub-systems of a larger system require frequent
maintenance.
Re-engineering involves adding effort to make them easier to maintain. The system
may be re-structured and re-documented.
38. Reduced risk
There is a high risk in new software development. There may be development
problems, staffing problems and specification problems.
Reduced cost
The cost of re-engineering is often significantly less than the costs of developing new
software.
39.
40.
41. Source code translation
Convert code to a new language.
Reverse engineering
Analyze the program to understand it;
Program structure improvement
Restructure automatically for understandability;
Program modularization
Reorganize the program structure;
Data reengineering
Clean-up and restructure system data.
42. Analyzing software with a view to understanding its design and specification
May be part of a re-engineering process but may also be used to re-specify a system
for re-implementation
Builds a program data base and generates information from this.
Program understanding tools (browsers, cross-reference generators, etc.) may be
used in this process
43.
44. Reverse engineering often precedes re-engineering but is sometimes worthwhile in its
own right.
The design and specification of a system may be reverse engineered so that they can
be an input to the requirements specification process for the system’s replacement.
The design and specification may be reverse engineered to support program
maintenance