This document discusses software maintenance. It defines software maintenance as the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, improve performance, or adapt to changes. Approximately 40-70% of software costs are for maintenance over the 5-10 year lifespan of a product. Maintenance includes correcting errors, enhancing capabilities, removing obsolete features, and optimizing performance. The goals of maintenance are to fix bugs, enhance functionality, update the software, and adapt it to environmental changes. The majority of maintenance work is perfective and adaptive in nature. The document outlines best practices for development and management to improve maintainability.