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Towards an ontology of software maintenance

✍ Scribed by Kitchenham, Barbara A.; Travassos, Guilherme H.; von Mayrhauser, Anneliese; Niessink, Frank; Schneidewind, Norman F.; Singer, Janice; Takada, Shingo; Vehvilainen, Risto; Yang, Hongji

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 271 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 1040-550X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199911/12)11:6<365::aid-smr200>3.0.co;2-w

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✦ Synopsis

We suggest that empirical studies of maintenance are difficult to understand unless the context of the study is fully defined. We developed a preliminary ontology to identify a number of factors that influence maintenance. The purpose of the ontology is to identify factors that would affect the results of empirical studies. We present the ontology in the form of a UML model. Using the maintenance factors included in the ontology, we define two common maintenance scenarios and consider the industrial issues associated with them.

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